Introducing the New Phenom II 980 BE vs. Core i7-920 – value meets performance again

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.

We test at 1920×1200, 2560×1600 and 5760×1080 resolutions:

There is very little difference playing on either CPU platform.  The Core i7-920’s perceived advantage at lower resolutions disappears as the resolution goes up.