Dirt Rally

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.

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Settings used for Dirt Rally

 

In our first test of the day, Dirt Rally, the Vega 64 is within 2-3% of the GTX 1080; faster at 4K but slower at 1440p. We do see a jump of 10% or so over the Frontier Edition cards, and I must admit to being surprised. The liquid version of the Vega 64 is 9% faster at 2560×1440 but only 3% faster when running at 4K resolution. If you look closely at the data there is slightly higher frame time variance for the three Vega cards compared to the GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti, though not enough to make a significant impact on experience.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB, Average FPS Comparisons, Dirt Rally
  RX Vega 64 Liquid GTX 1080  GTX 1080 Ti Vega FE 16GB
2560×1440 -9% -2% -31% +10%
3840×2160 -3% +3% -31% +9%

This table presents the above data in a more basic way, focusing only on the average FPS, so keep that in mind. 

 

The RX Vega 56 is 7-10% slower than the Vega 64 in Dirt Rally across both resolutions, but it can come in ahead of the GTX 1070 by 2-4%. The same slightly higher variance is seen in this round of testing but again it is not significant enough to be a performance concern.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, Average FPS Comparisons, Dirt Rally
  RX Vega 64 (Air) GTX 1080 GTX 1070 Fury X
2560×1440 -7% -9% +4% +18%
3840×2160 -10% -7% +2% +10%

This table presents the above data in a more basic way, focusing only on the average FPS, so keep that in mind.

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