AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition & 7850 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 AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition was very impressive in Dirt 3! The fact that it was under 1FPS slower than the $100 more expensive Radeon HD 7950 at both 1920×1080 and 1280×1024 resolutions was pretty crazy! The Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition has a core clock of 1000MHz versus the 900MHz on the Radeon HD 7950, so this benchmark might like the higher core clocks!

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