AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB Video Card Review

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Manufacturer:	AMD
Product:	Radeon HD 7970 3GB
Date:	Wed, Dec 21, 2011 - 11:00 PM
Written By:	Nathan Kirsch -
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DiRT 3

Dirt 3 (stylized DiRT 3) is a rallying video game and the third in the Dirt series of the Colin McRae Rally series, developed and published by Codemasters. However, the "Colin McRae" tag has been completely removed from this iteration. The game was released in Europe and North America on the 24 May 2011.

Dirt 3 Game Settings

Dirt3 uses Ego 2.0 Game Technology Engine (more commonly referred to as Ego Engine or EGO, stylised ego), which is a video game engine developed by Codemasters. Ego is a modified version of the Neon game engine that was used in Colin McRae: Dirt and was developed by Codemasters and Sony Computer Entertainment using Sony Computer Entertainment's PhyreEngine cross-platform graphics engine. The Ego engine was developed to render more detailed damage and physics as well as render large-scale environments.

Benchmark Results: With the image quality set to the maximum and 8x anti aliasing there was only 3 frames per second between the top two single GPU graphics cards in DiRT 3 at 1280x1024. The three frames per second difference was lead by the AMD Radeon HD 7970 which is 2.9% faster than the EVGA Classified. Running the DiRT3 benchmark at 1920x1080 the margin grows to nearly 6 frames per second which is a solid difference of 7.4%

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Review Index

Page 1 - The Radeon HD 7900 Series Arrives
Page 2 - Graphics Core Next & More
Page 3 - The AMD Radeon HD 7970
Page 4 - The Test System
Page 5 - Batman: Arkham City
Page 6 - Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Page 7 - DiRT 3
Page 8 - H.A.W.X. 2
Page 9 - Just Cause 2
Page 10 - Metro 2033
Page 11 - 3DMark 11
Page 12 - Temperature & Noise Testing
Page 13 - Power Consumption & AMD ZeroCore
Page 14 - Overclocking The Radeon HD 7970
Page 15 - Overclocked Benchmark Results
Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions

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