Dirt Rally
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Looking for a racing game that's action packed, fun and exciting? Rallying is the genre that best ticks those boxes and Codemasters' Dirt Rally is a prime example. Arguably the British developer's best title in years, it uses the in-house Ego 3.0 engine to deliver high quality visuals and silky smooth gameplay.
The addition of older GPUs puts the performance of the GTX 1060 FE into better context. Those of you rocking a GTX 760 and intent on playing at a 1080p resolution with all the bells and whistles on most likely won't be disappointed with older silicon.
GTX 1060 FE is a card geared towards those who want to step it up a notch on the resolution ladder. It's a good fit for a QHD monitor, and performance continues to reside in the space vacant between overclocked, aftermarket GTX 970 and GTX 980 GPUs.
Looking across to the red team, a Radeon R9 390, available for £210 is just as good, though the latest Pascal is about 10 per cent quicker than a reference Radeon RX 480.
Given that this is the first time we're looking at a particular GPU, it pays to examine what happens to the latency and frame rate at the edge of the spectrum. We can use the FRAPS-collected data and calculate the time taken for the frame at the 99 per cent interval, meaning the figures above represent the time taken for the slowest one per cent of frames. These are important as visual performance is dictated more by the slow frames than the expected fast ones. A lower millisecond time for frame completion at the 99th percentile is what's required.
Examined at the QHD resolution that is a good fit for both new, competing GPUs, the GTX 1060's higher average frame rate also translates into smoother frame production near the worst-case scenario. This graph is a proxy for smoothness, and if taken over a complete second to give fps, the GTX 1060 would score 61fps and the Radeon RX 480 52fps. The analysis tells us the game is lovely and smooth on both GPUs, albeit a bit faster on the GeForce.
