ASUS Radeon HD 7970 3GB CrossFire Review

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Manufacturer:	ASUS
Product:	ASUS HD7970-3GD5-3DI2S
Date:	Fri, Jan 20, 2012 - 12:00 AM
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: DiRT 3 shows really great performance scaling and it should since it's an AMD backed game title. Here we see the single AMD Radeon HD 7970 averaging 85.50 FPS at 1920 x 1080 and the CrossFire setup running at 149.29 FPS. This nearly a 75% performance increase and one heck of a performance boost that was more than enough to blow away the ASUS GeForce GTX 590 graphics card!

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Review Index

Page 1 - Our First Retail Radeon HD 7970 GPU!
Page 2 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 3 - The Test System
Page 4 - Batman: Arkham City
Page 5 - Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Page 6 - DiRT 3
Page 7 - H.A.W.X. 2
Page 8 - Just Cause 2
Page 9 - Metro 2033
Page 10 - 3DMark 11
Page 11 - Power Consumption & Temps
Page 12 - Overclocking the 7970 in CrossFire
Page 13 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions

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