Sierra FEAR 1.08 - AA/AF Tests	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.

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 ASUS EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A (Crossfire) 126 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC 38 ASUS EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A 91 ASUS EAH4850 HTDI/512M 52 MSI R4830-T2D512-OC (Radeon 4830) 57 Diamond HD 3650 PE 512 26.7 Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 37 ASUS ENGTS250 DK 73 ASUS ENGTS250 DK in SLI 143 Gigabyte GV-N96TSL-1GI 59 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 8xQ AA / 8x AF Points Ranking Palit HD4870 X2 2GB 144 ASUS EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A 68 ASUS EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A (Crossfire) 125 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC 39 ASUS EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A 90 ASUS EAH4850 HTDI/512M 52 MSI R4830-T2D512-OC (Radeon 4830) 56 ASUS EAH4550 512M 17 Diamond HD 3650 PE 512 8 Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 59 ASUS ENGTS250 DK 52 ASUS ENGTS250 DK in SLI 102 Gigabyte GV-N96TSL-1GI 43 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

At high quality settings in FEAR the difference between the ASUS EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A and the SLI'd Geforce GTS 250 videocards shrinks significantly - 90FPS vs 102FPS respectively.