NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 4GB Video Card Review

By Nathan Kirsch May 2, 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: DiRT 3 shows that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 and the GeForce GTX 680’s in SLI perform nearly identical to each other. Comparing the performance of the GeForce GTX 690 to a single GTX 680 we can see some hefty performance improvements. At our lowest testing resolution of 1280×1024 the GTX 690 was only 37.8% ahead of the single GTX 680. Once we increased the resolution to 2560×1600 the performance margin increased to 75.6%!

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