AMD Radeon HD 7790 Video Card Review w/ Gigabyte & Sapphire

Dirt: Showdown

Dirt: Showdown is a video game published and developed by Codemasters for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It was released in May 2012 in Europe and in June in North America. It is part of the Colin McRae Rally game series.

Dirt: Showdown removes several of the gameplay modes featured Dirt 3, and introduces new ones. Gameplay modes can be classified as Racing, Demolition, Hoonigan or Party. We ran the built in Benchmark at Ultra settings to get a true feel of what this engine has to offer!

It is very important to note that Global Illumination and Advanced Lighting have massive performance penalties when enabled, something not seen in other titles in the Dirt series. We disabled this setting.

Benchmark Results: The Sapphire Radeon HD 7790 Dual-X OC was just 27% faster than the EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti SSC in Dirt Showdown at 1920×1080.