Introducing AMD’s “Turks” – HD 6670 and HD 6570
DiRT 2
Colin McRae: DiRT 2 is a racing game that was released in September 2009, and is the sequel to Colin McRae: Dirt. It includes many new race-events, including stadium events as your RV travels from one event to another in many real-world environments across four continents. Dirt 2 includes five different event types even allowing you to compete at new locations. It also includes a new multiplayer mode.
Dirt 2 is powered by an updated version of the EGO engine which was featured in Race Driver: Grid. This updated EGO engine also features an updated physics engine. We are using the Dirt 2 full retail game built-in benchmark at the highest “ultra” DX11 setting with 8xAA applied.
First we test at 1920×1200:
The GTS 450 is ahead of the HD 6670 and HD 5770 is ahead of the GTX 550 Ti and the HD 6790 moves past both of them but our tested resolution is too demanding. What about 1680×1050?
The GTX 450 is faster than the overclocked HD 6670. We see decent scaling on the new Radeon’s overclock and the effect of changing the AA on performance. However, even the lowest priced cards except for the GT 430 can play this game satisfactorily at medium-high resolutions if you are willing to sacrifice some details.
great review mark! Huge piles of data, thats what i love about the abt. I totally agree with your conclusion which is spot on. Given the gts450 and hd5770 may not be around for much longer these cards should be a great option in the future but for now there are some really nice price/performance options in the same bracket and they just dont shine through them. In time they may fall in place when some of these killer deals from the last generation slowly slip out of the picture.