FEAR	Source: Sierra

FEAR is Sierra's latest first person shooter which relies heavily on DirectX 9 features. With its "Soft Shadows" feature enabled, even the fastest videocards run at a crawl, FEAR is definitely the new benchmark for future FPS games to follow.

FEAR
Minimum 640x480:	FPS	Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840	244
Intel Pentium D 940	212
AMD Athlon64 4000+	268
AMD Athlon64 FX-60	286
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (GeForce 7800GTX Single)	243
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (GeForce 7800GTX SLI)	238
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (Overclocked to 2.92 GHz)	280
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 (GeForce 7800GTX Single)	277
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 (GeForce 7800GTX SLI)	290
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 (Overclocked to 3.08 GHz)	310
Maximum 1024x768:	FPS	Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840	115
Intel Pentium D 940	98
AMD Athlon64 4000+	105
AMD Athlon64 FX-60	131
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (GeForce 7800GTX Single)	99
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (GeForce 7800GTX SLI)	117
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (Overclocked to 2.92 GHz)	103
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 (GeForce 7800GTX Single)	103
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 (GeForce 7800GTX SLI)	104
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 (Overclocked to 3.08 GHz)	112

The Athlon64 FX-60 puts in a good showing against the newer systems, generating a higher framerate than the AMD Athlon64 FX-62 overclocked to 3.08 GHz in the second half of this test.