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

Sierra FEAR SS Disabled 1600x1200 - AA/AF Tests 8x AA: Points Ranking Palit HD4870 X2 2GB 145 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A 69 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC 38 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC (Crossfire) 126 Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 37 Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M 52 nVidia Geforce 9600GTs in SLI 120 Asus EN9600GT Top/HTDI/512M 65 Foxconn 9600GT-512NOC 69 Palit Geforce 9600GT 512 69 Biostar V903GT52-NV1AN 63 MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E 65 Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC 39 MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC 36 Palit 8800GT Super+ 1GB 131 MSI NX8800GT-T2D512E-OC 63 Foxconn 8600GTS-256 25 MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 25 Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS 21 16x AA: Points Ranking Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A 41 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC 22 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC (Crossfire) 39 nVidia Geforce 9600GTs in SLI 121 Asus EN9600GT Top/HTDI/512M 65 Foxconn 9600GT-512NOC 69 Palit Geforce 9600GT 512 68 Biostar V903GT52-NV1AN 62 MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E 65 Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC 39 MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC 36 Palit 8800GT Super+ 1GB 63 MSI NX8800GT-T2D512E-OC 63 Foxconn 8600GTS-256 25 MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 25 8xQ AA / 8x AF Points Ranking Palit HD4870 X2 2GB 144 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A 68 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC 39 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC (Crossfire) 125 Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 59 Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M 52 nVidia Geforce 9600GTs in SLI 82 Asus EN9600GT Top/HTDI/512M 43 Foxconn 9600GT-512NOC 46 Palit Geforce 9600GT 512 46 Biostar V903GT52-NV1AN 42 MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E 64 Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC 29 MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC 27 Palit 8800GT Super+ 1GB 40 MSI NX8800GT-T2D512E-OC 44 Foxconn 8600GTS-256 13 MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 13 Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS 20 16xQ AA / 16x AF Points Ranking Palit HD4870 X2 2GB 75 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A 40 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC 41 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC (Crossfire) 40 Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 36 Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M 52 nVidia Geforce 9600GTs in SLI 63 Asus EN9600GT Top/HTDI/512M 37 Foxconn 9600GT-512NOC 36 Palit Geforce 9600GT 512 40 Biostar V903GT52-NV1AN 36 MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E 33 Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC 38.5 Palit 8800GT Super+ 1GB 34 MSI NX8800GT-T2D512E-OC 36 Foxconn 8600GTS-256 10 MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 10 Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS 29

A little more strangeness in this last benchmark. The crossfire results were impressive as expected, but the single MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC did not perform up to its potential except at the maximum 16AA/16AF setting, where it churned out a very respectable 41FPS.