For all you racing fans out there, this test is for you and will represent the Racing game category in our benchmarks.

From the graphics point of view the first thing you'll notice in the game is the excellent amount detail of your racing car. High resolution textures on the car and lighting make it quite impressive. All the eye candy such as the sun reflection in the virtual camera are still the same as the older CM versions but motion blur has been added when your card hits something hard which will happen most often if you're new to the racing simulation world.

To measure performance on the game we used fraps to get the average fps of the whole 8th stage of UK which is actually the only stage you get to play on the demo.

Colin McRae 2005 tends to be much kinder with ATi cards. The Sapphire X800 starts off with a 13fps lead which varies around 20fps as we increase the resolution further.

Enabling 4x Anti-Aliasing and 8x Anisotropic Filtering to increase image quality, only the X800XL can come up with great framerates under all resolutions. However, both the X800 and 6600GT didn't do so badly and the game is still enjoyable at 1280x1024.