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
1024x768:	FPS	Ranking
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	188
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	109
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	143
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	138
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	78
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	68
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD	157
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD 665/1066	155
1600x1200:	FPS	Ranking
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	114
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	59
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	110
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	79
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	39
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	34
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD	132
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD 665/1066	139
1024x768 w/Soft Shadows Enabled:	FPS	Ranking
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	91
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	66
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	114
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	85
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	40
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	31
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD	134
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD 665/1066	139
1600x1200 w/Soft Shadows Enabled:	FPS	Ranking
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	42
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	30
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	59
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	39
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	18
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	14
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD	74
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD 665/1066	84

FEAR is one of the most stressful games on the market, and here we see that the MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD videocard enjoys a nice lead in terms of overall performance. With all the eye candy turned on, we finally see some more benefit from overclocking the MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD videocard!