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 |
   |
| AMD Athlon64 4000+ |
268 |
   |
| AMD Athlon64 FX-60 |
286 |
|
| AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ |
243 |
|
| AMD Athlon64 FX-62 |
277 |
|
| Intel Pentium D 940 |
212 |
   |
| Intel Pentium D 940 (Overclocked to 4.4 GHz) |
263 |
|
| Maximum 1024x768: |
FPS |
Ranking |
| Intel Pentium D 840 |
115 |
|
| AMD Athlon64 4000+ |
105 |
|
| AMD Athlon64 FX-60 |
131 |
|
| AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ |
99 |
|
| AMD Athlon64 FX-62 |
103 |
|
| Intel Pentium D 940 |
98 |
|
| Intel Pentium D 940 (Overclocked to 4.4 GHz) |
122 |
|
At stock speeds the FEAR framerate results are kind of
low... relatively speaking. Overclocking boosts framerates very nicely, to
122FPS, so if you're a Pentium D gamer you'd do well to overclock your system.
Next up we're going to load the test system with
Microsoft WindowsXP x64-Edition and retest the Intel Pentium D 940 processor
with a series of pure 64-bit benchmarks, compared against several 64-bit
benchmark results of AMD Athlon64 processors.
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