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.

Sierra FEAR 1.08 Minimum 640x480: Points Ranking Gigabyte G1.Assassin (X58 / 1333) 631 MSI Eclipse Plus (X58 / 1066) 646 Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD5-B3 (Z68 / 1333) 713 Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3-iSSD (Z68 / 1333) 710 Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 (Z68 / 1333) 728 Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7 (P67 / 1333) 744 Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4-B3 (P67 / 1333) 720 Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4 (P67 / 1333) 730 ASUS P8P67 Pro (P67 / 1333) 708 MSI P67A-GD65 (P67 / 1333) 734 ECS P67H2-A (P67 / 1333) 735 Biostar TH67XE (H67 / 1333) 749 ECS H67H2-M (H67 / 1333) 734 Intel DH67BL (H67 / 1333) 746 Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD6 (P55 / 1333) 628 Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 (P55 / 1333) 635 Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5 (P55 / 1333) 656 Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P (P55 / 1333) 636 Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R (P55 / 1333) 637 ASUS P7P55D-E Pro (P55 / 1333) 583 ASUS P7P55D Deluxe (P55 / 1333) 636 ASUS P7P55D Premium (P55 / 1333) 644 Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7 (990FX / 1333 PIIX6 1090T) 582 Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD7 (890FX / 1333 PIIX6 1090T) 454 ASUS Crosshair IV Formula (890FX / 1066 PIIX6 1090T) 587 Biostar TA890FXE (890FX / 1066 PIIX6 1090T) 554 MSI 890FXA-GD70 (890FX / 1066 PIIX6 1090T) 576 Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P (790FX / 1066) 656 MSI 785GM-E65 (785G / 1066) 572 Maximum 1024x768: Points Ranking Gigabyte G1.Assassin (X58 / 1333) 278 MSI Eclipse Plus (X58 / 1066) 174 Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD5-B3 (Z68 / 1333) 328 Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3-iSSD (Z68 / 1333) 319 Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 (Z68 / 1333) 325 Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7 (P67 / 1333) 323 Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4-B3 (P67 / 1333) 327 Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4 (P67 / 1333) 319 ASUS P8P67 Pro (P67 / 1333) 318 MSI P67A-GD65 (P67 / 1333) 314 ECS P67H2-A (P67 / 1333) 303 Biostar TH67XE (H67 / 1333) 306 ECS H67H2-M (H67 / 1333) 286 Intel DH67BL (H67 / 1333) 307 Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD6 (P55 / 1333) 171 Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 (P55 / 1333) 173 Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5 (P55 / 1333) 172 Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P (P55 / 1333) 173 Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R (P55 / 1333) 175 ASUS P7P55D-E Pro (P55 / 1333) 176 ASUS P7P55D Deluxe (P55 / 1333) 174 ASUS P7P55D Premium (P55 / 1333) 174 Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7 (990FX / 1333 PIIX6 1090T) 252 Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD7 (890FX / 1333 PIIX6 1090T) 205 ASUS Crosshair IV Formula (890FX / 1066 PIIX6 1090T) 175 Biostar TA890FXE (890FX / 1066 PIIX6 1090T) 173 MSI 890FXA-GD70 (890FX / 1066 PIIX6 1090T) 176 Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P (790FX / 1066) 172 MSI 785GM-E65 (785G / 1066) 171

Again, the motherboard's performance has little influence on this DX9 benchmark. At these levels the performance is almost entirely dictated by the CPU and videocard.

IGP Motherboard Benchmarks

Since the Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3-iSSD motherboard features an on-board HDMI video port PCSTATS is including IGP benchmarks for the Intel HD 3000 graphics core compared to several other Intel and AMD IGP graphics solutions. These results are usually rolled into the main benchmark charts you've just seen, but with the recent release of the AMD A75 chipset and Radeon HD 6550D IGP, it's worthwhile to see IGPs compared against themselves to truly discover all that these mainstream class of motherboards has to offer.

PCSTATS will be running through these pretty quickly since the numbers are self explanatory. Let's begin with 3DMark....