Dirt 3 Benchmarks

Dirt 3 is a racing game with awe-inspiring visuals. Thanks to its various graphics settings, the game can be configured to run optimally on any system. In the following article, we will detail the hardware requirements of this game with the help of various benchmarks.

Florian Glaser (translated by Vinay Pradhan), Published 11/02/2011 🇩🇪

How we test

Thankfully, Dirt 3 has an integrated benchmark which can be found at the bottom of the graphics settings screen. The integrated benchmark includes a short intro sequence and a race (in snow) between the computer AI versus multiple opponents. The race lasts one minute and it never runs the same way twice, so the average frames per second vary from benchmark to benchmark.

800x600, Ultra Low Preset, Radeon HD 5850

1366x768, High Preset, 2xAA, Radeon HD 5850

1920x1080, Ultra Preset, 4xAA, Radeon HD 5850

Analysis of the Benchmarks

For the best visuals, the user will need a high-end graphics card. Fluid gameplay with ultra high details, 4x AA (Anti-Aliasing) and the Full HD resolution of 1920x1080 pixels is only possible with a Radeon HD 6990M or a GeForce GTX 580M.

The user can run the game at high details (very little difference), 2x AA and a resolution of 1366x768 pixels with a middle-class GPU like the Radeon HD 5650 or GeForce GT 540M.

The game can be run with minimum details and a low resolution of 1024x768 pixels on a low-end graphic card as well.

An overview of all the games we have tested can be found here.

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Florian Glaser, 2011-11- 2 (Update: 2013-06- 6)

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5	Stutters – This game is very likely to stutter and have poor frame rates. Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, average frame rates are expected to fall below 25fps
	May Stutter – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game. Based on interpolated information from surrounding graphics cards of similar performance levels, stutters and poor frame rates are expected.
30	Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 25fps
40	Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 35fps
60	Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 58fps
	May Run Fluently – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game. Based on interpolated information from surrounding graphics cards of similar performance levels, fluent frame rates are expected.
?	Uncertain – This graphics card experienced unexpected performance issues during testing for this game. A slower card may be able to achieve better and more consistent frame rates than this particular GPU running the same benchmark scene.
	Uncertain – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game and no reliable interpolation can be made based on the performances of surrounding cards of the same class or family.
The value in the fields displays the average frame rate of all values in the database. Move your cursor over the value to see individual results.

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1147	Qualcomm Adreno 302
314	AMD Radeon Pro 560
1155*	Qualcomm Adreno 225
622	AMD Radeon HD 6850M
650	AMD Radeon HD 6830M
1021*	AMD Radeon HD 6310
1019*	AMD Radeon HD 6320	25.2ⁿ³	12.85ⁿ²
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282*	AMD Radeon 760M
250	AMD Radeon 680M
609*	AMD Radeon HD 6775G2
157	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
52	NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU
332	AMD Radeon Pro 455
330	AMD Radeon Pro 555X
698	AMD Radeon HD 6650M	50ⁿ³	26.89ⁿ³	19ⁿ³
191*	AMD Radeon Pro 5500M
205	AMD Radeon Pro 5300M
740*	AMD Radeon HD 6680G2	64.9	57.6	23.7
697*	AMD Radeon HD 6690G2
841*	AMD Radeon HD 6480G + HD 7450M Dual Graphics	41.1	28.2	26.4
1042	AMD Radeon HD 6250
411	AMD FirePro W5130M
935*	AMD Radeon HD 7430M
972*	AMD Radeon HD 7350M
921	AMD Radeon HD 7370M
1018	AMD Radeon HD 7340
1032	AMD Radeon HD 7290
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384	Intel Iris Pro Graphics P580

1121	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150
78	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Desktop)
587	Intel UHD Graphics 630
673	NVIDIA GeForce 910M
1195*	NXP PXP
597	Intel UHD Graphics 620
1031	NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS
997	Intel HD Graphics 2000	53	21.4	13.3
893	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M	79.6ⁿ⁴	35.7ⁿ⁴	23.05ⁿ⁴	12.6ⁿ²
871	NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT
1098	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200
38	NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

54	NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

212*	NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q
184*	NVIDIA Quadro T2000 (Laptop)
56	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 (Laptop)
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1134*	PowerVR SGX543MP2
276	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M
1172	PowerVR SGX531
27	NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU
595	NVIDIA Tegra X1 Maxwell GPU















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654*	AMD Radeon HD 6730M	134.8	62.9	41.6	15.7
1160*	Qualcomm Adreno 220
836	AMD Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5	138.2	41.11	27.4	12.8
917*	AMD Radeon HD 6480G
581	AMD Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)
242*	AMD Radeon 780M
359	AMD Radeon 630
512	AMD Radeon 625
412	AMD FirePro M8900
402*	AMD FirePro W5170M
579	AMD Radeon 520
748	AMD Radeon HD 6630M	89.5ⁿ³	51.4ⁿ³	36.3ⁿ³	13ⁿ²
840	AMD Radeon HD 7500G
934	AMD Radeon HD 6450M	32	30	19	8
1033	AMD Radeon HD 6290	15.9	12.6	12.6	-1
425*	AMD Radeon 740M
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470	AMD FirePro W4190M
360*	AMD Radeon 540X
280	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
628	NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M












315	AMD Radeon Pro 460
839*	AMD Radeon HD 6540G2	73.2	45.3
837*	AMD Radeon HD 6545G2
537	AMD Radeon HD 6870M
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756	AMD Radeon HD 6530M
767	AMD Radeon HD 7640G	65.3	33.5
437	AMD Radeon HD 6950M
763	AMD Radeon HD 7640G + HD 7610M Dual Graphics
















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744	AMD Radeon HD 6550M




281	NVIDIA T600
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566	NVIDIA GeForce 920M
161	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super (Desktop)
192	NVIDIA Quadro P4000 Max-Q

661*	AMD Radeon HD 6620G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics
838*	AMD Radeon HD 6520G + HD 7450M Dual Graphics	61.95ⁿ²	41.2ⁿ²	30.45ⁿ²

762*	AMD Radeon HD 6550D	122.4	55.6	37.09ⁿ²	13.1ⁿ²












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331	AMD Radeon Pro 555
982	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600




149*	AMD Radeon Pro 5600M
313	AMD Radeon Pro 560X
263	AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16
241	AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20



346*	AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100

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348*	AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100

739	NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M



351	AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire	269.6	161	132.9	67.8
389	AMD Radeon HD 6990M	209.5	96.1	91.35ⁿ²	39.38ⁿ³
413	AMD Radeon HD 6970M	224.7	104.8	78.7	33.2


302	AMD Radeon HD 6970
354	AMD Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire
743	ATI Radeon HD 5570
637	AMD Radeon HD 7660G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics	83	48	44	22
984	ATI Mobility Radeon X800
1185	ATI Radeon IGP 340M
990	ATI Mobility Radeon X700
1186	ATI Radeon IGP 320M
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649	NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

785	NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M


516	NVIDIA GeForce 830M
533	NVIDIA GeForce 825M


983	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M
318	NVIDIA GeForce MX350



801	NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
13	NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU
674	NVIDIA GeForce 820M	112.5	62.5	46.2	13.7
919	NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M
789	NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M
679	NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS
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357	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M	182.6	123.4	107	48
760	NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M
507	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M		92.7	56.2
531	NVIDIA GeForce GT 735M		81.8	48.3	16.2
678	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M		70.2	42.4
177	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
545	NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M	144	95	66	21
380*	NVIDIA Quadro P500
340	NVIDIA GeForce GT 710
210*	NVIDIA Quadro P3000 Max-Q
689*	AMD Radeon HD 6720G2		40	35.3
842*	AMD Radeon HD 6515G2
882*	AMD Radeon HD 6510G2
1113*	PowerVR GE8100

135*	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q
1169*	Qualcomm Adreno 203
115	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 (Laptop)


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32	NVIDIA Titan RTX
130*	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 (Laptop)

















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897	PowerVR GX6450
1012	PowerVR GX6250















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1059*	PowerVR GE8322 / IMG8322

1111*	PowerVR GE8320
1107*	PowerVR SGX543MP4















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684*	AMD Radeon R5 M420
904	AMD Radeon HD 6520G	58	17	15
891	AMD Radeon HD 6470M	81.75ⁿ²	36.95ⁿ²	24.15ⁿ²	12.9ⁿ²
642	AMD Radeon HD 6750M	72.6	46.9	40	14.3
845	AMD Radeon HD 6490M	76.45ⁿ²	29.46ⁿ²	21.55ⁿ²	9
284	AMD Radeon 660M
450	AMD FirePro W4170M
623	AMD FirePro W2100
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931	AMD Radeon HD 6370M
973*	AMD Radeon HD 6350M
993*	AMD Radeon HD 6330M
570	AMD Radeon 620
580	AMD Radeon 610
582*	AMD Radeon 610M
451	AMD FirePro W4100
612	AMD FirePro M5950		82.4	56.1	18.2
535	AMD FirePro M4000
311	AMD FirePro M6100
892*	AMD FirePro M3900
548	AMD FirePro M4100
511	AMD Radeon 530
750	AMD FirePro M2000
617	AMD Radeon HD 6770M	83.2	54	46.3	17





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399	AMD Radeon HD 6790













427	AMD FirePro M6000
28	AMD Radeon Pro W6800
63*	NVIDIA RTX A4000 Laptop GPU

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428	AMD FirePro M5100
254	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

787*	AMD Radeon HD 6645G2
652*	AMD Radeon HD 6760G2
817	NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI
386	ATI Radeon HD 5850	114.4	71.4	70.1	46.7
166	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
207	NVIDIA Quadro P3000


137	AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56
180	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M SLI

371	AMD Radeon HD 6870	307.45ⁿ²	169ⁿ²	125.3ⁿ²	53.4ⁿ²
272	AMD FirePro W7170M




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964*	AMD Radeon HD 6430M
965*	AMD Radeon HD 6380G
614	AMD Radeon R6 (Kaveri)	66.1	35.2	25.2	12.9
599	AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
1020	AMD Radeon HD 7310
294	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M		152.6	146.2	86
319	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
793*	AMD Radeon HD 6620G + HD 7450M Dual Graphics
667	AMD Radeon R5 M335









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120*	AMD Radeon PRO W6600M
669	AMD Radeon R5 M430
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996	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M
235	AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire



1138*	PowerVR SGX544MP2
300	AMD Radeon HD 8970M
794*	AMD Radeon HD 6640G2

358	AMD Radeon Pro 450
825	AMD Radeon HD 6620G	58.5ⁿ²	36ⁿ³	24ⁿ³	12.85
457	Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200