FarCry	Source: Ubisoft

Real-time editing, bump mapping, static lights, network system, integrated physics system, shaders, shadows, and a dynamic music system are just some of the state of-the-art features that the CryENGINE offers. The game was set to Ultra quality and the Ubisoft's Regulator and Training demos were run.

FarCry Regulator Demo UQ 1600x1200:
Anti-Aliasing	FPS	Ranking
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo2x AA	37.34
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo4x AA	29.51
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 6x AA	21.82
Anisotropic Filtering	FPS	Ranking
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 2x AF	40.27
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 4x AF	40.45
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 8x AF	38.09
Powercolor X1600XT Bravo 16x AF	36.37
Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering	FPS	Ranking
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 2x AA, 8x AF	30.42
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 4x AA, 16x AF	22.64
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 6x AA, 16x AF	18.29

The Powercolor X1600XT Bravo performs well in the FarCry AA/AF tests at the resolution of 1600x1200. With light AA and AF enabled, the game can be played at this resolution.

Doom 3	Source: id Software

Doom 3 takes advantage of the latest videocard technology and pushes the processing power of the CPU to its absolute limits. At its highest setting, Ultra quality, texture sizes pass the 500MB mark which means even tomorrow's videocards will have a hard time running everything. The frame rates in the game itself are locked at 60 fps so anything above that point is wasted. Each test is run three times and with the third run being recorded.

Doom 3 HQ 1600x1200:
Anti-Aliasing	FPS	Ranking
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 2x AA	25.7
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 4x AA	22.3
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 6x AA	15.7
Anisotropic Filtering	FPS	Ranking
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 2x AF	34.2
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 4x AF	33.8
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 8x AF	33.6
Powercolor X1600XT Bravo 16x AF	33.8
Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering	FPS	Ranking
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 2x AA, 8x AF	26.1
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 4x AA, 16x AF	22.4
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 6x AA, 16x AF	15.1

Doom 3 in high quality mode at 1600x1200 is too much for the Powercolor X1600XT Bravo.

FEAR	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.

FEAR 1600x1200 SS Disabled
Anti-Aliasing	FPS	Ranking
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 2x AA	23
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 4x AA	16
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 6x AA	12
Anisotropic Filtering	FPS	Ranking
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 2x AF	22
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 4x AF	22
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 8x AF	22
Powercolor X1600XT Bravo 16x AF	22
Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering	FPS	Ranking
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 2x AA, 8x AF	21
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 4x AA, 16x AF	13
PowerColor X1600 XT Bravo 6x AA, 16x AF	10

FEAR framerates are decent all around considering the Powercolor X1600XT Bravo is a mainstream videocard and not high end. Relative results like this are worth pause, but certainly aren't realistic for actually gaming. So where does this leave the Powercolor X1600XT Bravo?