Colin McRae DIRT
To test Colin McRae‘s latest opus which is very resource heavy we carried out a well defined sequence in high quality mode. Note that the activation of antialiasing is highly recommended given the way menus are rendered and because post processing effects amplify aliasing. The patch 1.2 was used.
CrossFire X does relatively well in this game and the two Radeon HD 3870 X2s are only surpassed by the three GeForce 8800 Ultras in 2560x1600. In 1920x1200, the added cost related to triple and quad SLI causes a slight performance reduction.
With anti-aliasing, 512 MB becomes insufficient in 2560x1600. While the Radeon HD 3870 X2 has respectable performances, they drop with more than two GPUs for both AMD and Nvidia. Of course, the GeForce 8800 Ultra benefits from its surplus of memory here.
