Dirt 2
The physics engine from within Dirt 2 is a good test of a card and it’s rendering capabilities with fine details such as dust trailing from the rear of the car. There is also the aspect of light and reflections from the cars bodywork and the ability to work with the in game physics and damage rendering engines to produce a realistic gaming experience.
- Resolution: 1920 x 1080
- Preset: Ultra
- MSAA: 4x
- AF: 16x
Dirt 2 was always an extreme benchmark, and we were quite dubious about how this card was going to perform, but at 29.9FPS, the results are nothing to be laughed at. We aim for a solid 30FPS in our tests, as this generally shows no lag or stuttering in gaming and this card handled that extremely well.
That's not bad, good for a HTPC, but I don't think you should be expecting it to do eyefinity at that price…
Good review, sounds good for those on a budget who will have a lower res monitor screen. There are so many cards on the market these days is very hard to choose between them.
Agreed. So many cards to pick from these days… I was fortunate to win a Gigabyte HD 5830 video card from a contest this month: GIGABYTE – Graphics Card – ATI – PCI Express Solution – Radeon HD 5000 series – GV-R583UD-1GDI know it's a much older model and needs lots of juice to run but it's free and more than I could ask for… considering I'm not a hardcore gamer. I'm one step closer to completing more first ever build with this card 🙂
i know sapphire's blue PCB is their trademark thing, but i wish everybody would just switch to black PCB's. makes things look so much better!
I have one of these and everything this guy says is true , it is fantastic value for money.