Sierra FEAR 1.08	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.

Higher results are better.

Sierra FEAR 1.08 No AA - Windows Vista 640x480 LQ (FPS) Ranking Intel Core i7 920 701 Intel Core i5 750 639 Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 757 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 713 AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 734 AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 711 AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 632 AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 642 AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition 667 AMD Athlon II X4 620 368 AMD Athlon II X2 250 536 800x600 LQ (FPS) Ranking Intel Core i7 920 692 Intel Core i5 750 636 Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 752 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 689 AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 719 AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 703 AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 590 AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 597 AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition 654 AMD Athlon II X4 620 365 AMD Athlon II X2 250 526 1024x768 LQ (FPS) Ranking Intel Core i7 920 673 Intel Core i5 750 626 Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 722 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 572 AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 694 AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 667 AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 483 AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 491 AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition 636 AMD Athlon II X4 620 362 AMD Athlon II X2 250 496

FEAR doesn't scale quite as well on the Core i5 750 as Crysis does, since this benchmark is much more sensitive to raw increases in clockspeed.

Sierra FEAR 1.08 No AA - Windows 7 640x480 LQ (FPS) Ranking Intel Core i7 920 648 Intel Core i5 750 606 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 658 AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 673 800x600 LQ (FPS) Ranking Intel Core i7 920 643 Intel Core i5 750 597 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 650 AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 664 1024x768 LQ (FPS) Ranking Intel Core i7 920 644 Intel Core i5 750 593 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 645 AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 656

Scores in FEAR tend to fluctuate a lot (especially when running at several hundred frames per second), which explains why some scores go up and others go down when comparing Windows 7 to Windows Vista.

All the pieces seem to be falling into place, let's take a look at the big picture for Intel's most recent mainstream processor...