XFX Radeon HD 7850 1GB Core Edition Video Card Review

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. It seems to affect NVIDIA hardware more so than AMD. We ran with and without the settings enabled to show our readers that these two settings can make a world of difference to your gaming experience.

Benchmark Results: In Dirt Showdown we found the XFX Radeon HD 7850 1GB Core Edition was able to perform better than both of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 cards with factory overclocks on them! The XFX Radeon HD 7850 1GB Core averaged 74 FPS at 1920×1080 with the image quality increased.