DiRT 2, final thoughts
DiRT 2, a lovely-looking racer and one of the first games to use a DX11 path, offers improved visuals whilst burning through the London map.
Bringing the games to a close, DiRT 2 mirrors the performance drop-off we've seen in other titles. Yet again, making it a clean sweep, we felt it looked a lot better with three rotated monitors (portrait) sat next to each other.
Moral of this story?
The Radeon HD 6990 has more horsepower than any graphics card that has come before. The stats are downright scary, and running it with a single monitor doesn't do it justice. Really, at a minimum, you need to have three full-HD monitors sat next to each other before the GPUs become taxed with very-high-quality settings - anything else and you're just wasting card potential.
There are obvious ways to make the card struggle; Eyefinity6 and 3D usage come to mind, but for the most part, the HD 6990 is good enough to power practically all your games on three screens with IQ set to maximum.
AMD's Eyefinity needs to adapt to take different-resolution monitors in its stride, and we could do with miniDP displays dropping in price, but there's just something rather nice about hooking up a single card to three ultra-slim Samsung screens. You'll pay an incredible amount of money to do so - £2,000 by our reckoning - but as a gaming centrepiece it's hard to beat.
Bottom line: the Radeon HD 6990 4GB needs to be paired with multiple screens to show its real worth. Do so and you're rewarded with an excellent gaming experience.
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