NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2-Way SLI Video Card Review

By Nathan Kirsch

DiRT 3

Dirt 3 PC Game

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

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.

Dirt 3 PC Game Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 SLI setup ran great on Dirt 3 as well and really helped out on the higher resolutions thanks to the additional frame buffer. We saw a modest 53.7% performance improvement at 1920×1080, but at 2560×1600 the performance jumped up by 75.3% by just adding the second card.

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