Dirt Rally – Competitive
Dirt Rally (DirectX 11)
DiRT Rally is the most authentic, challenging and thrilling rally game ever made, road-tested over 80 million miles by the DiRT community. It captures the essence of what makes rally unique like no other game: that white knuckle feeling of racing on the edge; trying to remain in control of your emotions as you hurtle along dangerous, undulating roads at breakneck speed, aiming to squeeze everything out of your car whilst knowing that one crash could irreparably harm your stage time.
It’s the ultimate test of a driver’s skill, and the ultimate in high risk, high reward gameplay.
Settings used for Dirt Rally
Even at our lower tested resolution the GeForce GTX 1070 has a strong first showing, besting both the GTX 970 and GTX 980 by 60% and 31% respectively. Only the R9 390X has a competitive result, coming in just 9% slower.
At 2560×1440 the performance advantages of the GTX 1070 maintain or increase when compared to Maxwell-based cards as well as the Radeon R9 390X.
GeForce GTX 1070 8GB, Average FPS Comparisons, Dirt Rally | |||||
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GTX 980 | GTX 970 | R9 Nano | R9 390X | ||
1920×1080 | +31% | +60% | +28% | +9% | |
2560×1440 | +42% | +59% | +21% | +22% |
This table presents the above data in a more basic way, focusing only on the average FPS, so keep that in mind. The GTX 970, which the GTX 1070 is replacing, is just overcome with the performance of Pascal, falling behind by 60% at both tested resolutions. Even the GTX 980, another level higher on the stack from the previous generation, is 31-42% slower. The only competitive option AMD has is the R9 390X and even then, only at 1920×1080.
Based on my observation of
Based on my observation of the GTX 970 and 980 releases, I have a feeling that the GTX 1070 will be the best value. And anyone who buys a GTX 1080 will regret it once the 1080 Ti’s releases. Personally I may end up getting just one 1080 just to try it out for gaming and folding@home, but I’m really eager to see what Nvidia brings to the table with the Titanium release.
The link on the “Testing
The link on the “Testing Suite and Methodology Update” page in this paragraph:
“For those of you that have never read about our Frame Rating capture-based performance analysis system, the following section is for you. If you have, feel free to jump straight into the benchmark action!!”
jumps to the 1080 review.
I was properly confused for a few seconds when I didn’t see any 1070 data on the page.
@Allyn: What would you think
@Allyn: What would you think about frame time weighted frame time percentile graphs? Like in the SSD reviews?
Just a joke, I don’t think it matters that much in this data since the variance is not multiple orders of magnitude here.
Ryan and I actually had this
Ryan and I actually had this conversation the other day. It could come into play with the percentile plots, but things would need to be presented a bit differently. It would help spread cards with greater variation out of the pack a bit more, but as it stands now, cards that misbehave tend to misbehave badly enough that we don't need to weigh it any differently to make it obvious.
These new power measurements
These new power measurements are amazing, thanks pcper for keeping on it, pushing measurement methods and supplying us with sensible data.
(however, I think the particular page mixes Hawaii, Fiji and Tahiti as others have also commented on)
“Testing suite” page:
>> As a
“Testing suite” page:
>> As a result, you’ll two sets of data in our benchmark pages
Word missing?
>> As a result, you’ll word
>> As a result, you’ll word missing two sets of data in our benchmark pages.
I know it’s already alot of
I know it’s already alot of work, but can we have some openCL or blender benchmarks? or even just from preimer pro testing
not all people game
and, well, also for the 1080 please! >.<
Using Chrome atm. When I
Using Chrome atm. When I click on a picture, the pictures tend to look a bit weird. Like, with the power graph when I click on it, the picture isn’t centered on the page. When I click on the bar graph, the picture is super large.
Would anyone be able to say
Would anyone be able to say if one could pair this GPU with a 980ti since they are comparable in performance and are pretty much the same architecture?
Unlikely nVidia would let you
Unlikely nVidia would let you do it. Might work in something like Ashes of the Singularity but betting other developers will do a similar version of multi-card rendering doesn’t seem like a sound plan.
Why single out power used by
Why single out power used by graphics card alone?
As long as GPUs need driver executed by CPU it does nor make sense to me.
Great review yet again Ryan.
Great review yet again Ryan. Just a heads up, the link to the benchmarks on page 3 sends one to the 1080 page.
Are the other cards used in
Are the other cards used in the comparison overclocked?
Why does this site still use
Why does this site still use the stupid tiny lines? Why can’t you just put the damn FPS numbers down and be done with it! I hate looking at very tiny lines just to get a idea of performance! This is a huge reason why I stopped coming to this site for reviews!
Ryan.. would you agree that
Ryan.. would you agree that nVidia probably made the 970 too good of a deal for what you got? As it seems there is more differences between the 1070 vs 1080 this time around.
If nVidia could change history, they probably would have either made the 970 not as fast or more expensive.
@Ryan Shrout, can u do
@Ryan Shrout, can u do another review regarding MICRON & SAMSUNG VRAM for GTX 1070 again?
there’s some fiasco like previous GTX 970 3.5GB VRAM & guess what now is bout the brand.
obviously, every reviewers cherry picked with SAMSUNG chip & how come there’s no MICRON chip for review??? thanks.