Diamond HD4890-XOC, Review – Part 2

PT Boats: Knights of the Sea DX10 benchmark

PT Boats: Knights of the Sea is a stand-alone DX10 benchmark utility released by Akella last year. It is actually a tech demo of their upcoming simulation-action game. This DX10 benchmark test runs reliably and apparently provides very accurate and repeatable results.

We set the only settings options available to us as follows:

DirectX Version: DirectX 10
Resolution: 1920×1600 and 1680×1050 at 60 Hz
Image Quality: High
Anti aliasing: 4x

PT Boats DX10 benchmark, first at 1920×1200:

Here is 1680×1050 resolution:

We see a repeat performance where the HD4890-XOC clearly beats the HD4870 and narrows the gap with the GTX280.  All of these cards drop into the 20s at 1920×1200 resolution.  We are really looking forward to this game’s release, later on this year.