NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Video Card Review

By Nathan Kirsch March 21, 2012

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: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 was roughly 6 FPS slower than the EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win, but faster than both the AMD Radeon HD 7970 and the MSI R7970 Lighting. At a resolution of 1920×1080 the GeForce GTX 680 was 16.5% faster than the AMD Radeon HD 7970 reference card.

Benchmark Results: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX680 takes the win at a 2560×1600 resolution here as well against the MSI R7970 Lighting, which costs $100 more and has 50% more frame buffer!

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