VGA performance: Colin McRae DiRT 2 (DX11)

Colin McRae Dirt 2

It was merely a couple of months ago when Codemasters announced that they'd be delaying their hotty upcoming and much anticipated title Colin McRea DiRT 2, at that time nobody really understood the dynamic of delaying the PC version -- while Codemasters was already releasing the console version. As it turned out ATI was really keen to see high-profile titles in the Christmas season carrying support for DirectX 11.

Codemasters took advantage of DirectX 11 features to add some more realism to the racing environment. You'll notice improved appearance of water with the help of displacement mapping and other surfaces as well as complex crowd animations which are tessellated for richer detail.

Image Quality setting:

• 8x Anti-Aliasing
• 16x Anisotropic Filtering
• All settings maxed out

Here again we see near perfect scaling for 2-way SLI, I mean seriously, that is just really good. But then we look at the 3-way SLI results and see everything flat at roughly 140 FPS, again that's the CPU not being fast enough to feed three GeForce GTX 470 cards.