GPU Shoot-Out – Part II – Setting New Benches
PT Boats DX10 benchmark
We added a new DX10 benchmark in addition to the others used in our last Part I Shootout article. PT Boats: Knights of the Sea is a stand-alone DX10 benchmark utility released by Akella, last year. It is a benchmark-friendly 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
Very interesting. At the settings we choose, the trend is clear – any video card configuration that is limited to 512MB of VRAM runs like a slideshow – either 4870-512MB or 4870X2-2GB plus 4870-512MB in crossfireX-3 ! The other two cards have no such limitation and the benchmarks runs pretty well on them in contrast.
