![]() That's about all we needed to cover in our prelude to Dirt 4's graphics performance. Anyway, 8GB of RAM should have you covered. The exception to this will be seen when using a graphics card featuring a limited VRAM buffer at resolutions it can't handle. When it comes to system memory usage, the game typically consumes ~4 - 5GB depending on its configuration. This is evidence that Nvidia's memory compression technology is slightly superior. ![]() Using an AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB, these figures were slightly inflated hitting 4.5GB at 1080p, just over 5GB at 1440p and 7.5GB at 4K. Using a GeForce 10 series GPU, the game consumes almost 4GB of VRAM at 1080p using the Ultra quality settings, about 4.5GB at 1440p and around 6GB at 4K. The Ryzen 5 1400, 16 also delivered similar performance and again were all able to roughly max out the 1080 Ti. Of course, it'd be better if the EGO 4.0 game engine distributed load more evenly, but it's not an issue for a game like Dirt 4 that is primarily GPU-bound.įor those of you wondering, I saw almost no difference in performance when using the GTX 1080 Ti at 1080p using either the Pentium G4560 or a heavily overclocked Core i7-7700K, the CPU really makes little difference here. In other words, I'm not seeing a CPU bottleneck in this game. This isn't an Arma 3 sort of scenario where a single thread gets pounded and the CPU is still the performance limiting factor. That doesn't mean the game is poorly optimized, it just means it's not CPU intensive. Beyond that, on most modern quad-core or greater CPUs you will see 20% or less load on additional threads. The game heavily loads a single thread and at the most uses two threads efficiently. We decided to skip CPU scaling results for this title as Dirt 4 doesn't require a powerful CPU, and from some internal tests we figured that a modern dual-core CPU with Hyper-Threading such as the Pentium G4560 does well. Even without those cards, we tested a grand total of 27 GPUs, so that should give you a solid reference point.Īll testing was conducted using our usual Core i7-7700K system clocked at 4.9GHz. Please note the Radeon RX 480 and 470 have been dropped since they are similar to the newer RX 580 and 570. We'll be focusing exclusively on current and previous generation graphics cards tested at 1080p, 1440p and 4K. We'll look at the numbers shortly, but as a bit of a spoiler we can say that the red team has an edge in this title for now. As for Nvidia, its 382.53 WHQL driver claims to provide an optimal gaming experience for Dirt 4, though given the performance we recorded, there's probably already a more 'optimal' driver in the works. None of my tests will use higher than 4xMSAA as this is what the ultra preset enables, but you can expect more optimal performance across the board with this driver. ![]() With updated drivers from AMD and Nvidia arriving just a few days later, it seemed like an ideal time to see how the title runs on current and previous-generation GPUs.ĪMD's Crimson ReLive Edition 17.6.1 driver claims up to a 30% performance improvement over the previous driver for the RX 580 when using 8xMSAA. Codemasters' long-running rally game has returned for its twelfth lap, launching to largely positive reviews last Tuesday on PC, Xbox and PS4.
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