DiRT 3 – Single Card
DiRT 3 (DirectX 11)
A continuation of the Colin McRae series, but without his name, DiRT 3 is one of the top racing games in the world and offers stunning imagery along with support for features of DirectX 11.
Our settings for DiRT 3
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In the lower 1920×1080 testing we see that the GTX TITAN is actually running on par with the GTX 690 and about 30% faster than the GTX 680. Look at our frametime graph though – see a big problem? The GTX 690 absolutely exploded on individual frame rate results going anywhere from under 2 ms (a frame rate of 500 FPS!) to over 15 ms (66 FPS). This exactly why new and unique ways of monitoring performance are important. While the average FPS of the GTX 690 and GTX TITAN are close, the experiences clearly weigh in favor of the TITAN.
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As we jump up the resolution you'll find the GTX 690 comes out ahead a bit more over the GTX TITAN and the frame rate variance has come down considerably. It's likely that we are seeing less of a CPU bottleneck on the system as whole at this level and thus the GPU is no longer stalling and waiting.
I just spent a little over
I just spent a little over $1100 on 3 x 7970’s and against my friends new Titan, I basically walk over him in all benchmarks.
Except that Crossfire is a
Except that Crossfire is a sham. You get no better performance than one card. Read the article before spouting. And Tech Report and Hardocp. Runt frames a real disaster for Crossfire as they can be seen, measured, and exposed, unlike the fraps number which includes totally degraded frames in their fps number you rely on. Latencies have long been an issue with AMD cards and this clarifies in Crossfire.
Great work Ryan keep up the
Great work Ryan keep up the great work…by the way how do we support your site make donations !!!!! p.s I’m loving my tri sli titans this is the card I have been waiting for my hole life… been builbing systems starting back in the voodoo days finally 6000×1200 plays like butter nvidia is really something eh!!