ASUS ARES II Video Card Review

By Nathan Kirsch

Dirt: Showdown

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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 Settings
Dirt Showdown Settings

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.

Dirt Showdown Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: In Dirt Showdown we were shocked to see the performance numbers so close. At 1920×1080 the two dual-GPU cards were tied, but at 2560×1600 we discovered that the ASUS ARES2 was able to pull ahead by 13.5 FPS or 11%.

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