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.

ID Software Quake 4 1.3 Custom Demo
HQ 1024x768	FPS	Ranking
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT	139.9
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire	156.1
MSI RX2600XT Diamond	178.6
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	151.8
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	145.8
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E	186.5
Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC	190.1
MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC	183.3
GeForce 8600GTS SLI	186.3
Foxconn 8600GTS-256	182.2
MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC	180.6
Albatron 8600GT-256	175.5
MSI NX8500GT-TD256E	116.5
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	176.3
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	184
MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC	173.1
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	165.2
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	141.5
Gigabyte GV-NX85T256H (dual GFX cards in SLI)	148.6
HQ 1600x1200	FPS	Ranking
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT	140.6
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire	157.3
MSI RX2600XT Diamond	124.6
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	135.9
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	118.3
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E	185.9
Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC	180.3
MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC	181.5
GeForce 8600GTS SLI	179.5
Foxconn 8600GTS-256	132.8
MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC	136.3
Albatron 8600GT-256	128.2
MSI NX8500GT-TD256E	64.3
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	172.7
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	164.1
MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC	171.6
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	116.2
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	95.1
Gigabyte GV-NX85T256H (dual GFX cards in SLI)	107.5
UQ 1024x768	FPS	Ranking
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT	140.1
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire	156.5
MSI RX2600XT Diamond	175.4
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	150.9
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	130.6
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E	186.6
Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC	184.6
MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC	182.9
GeForce 8600GTS SLI	181.4
Foxconn 8600GTS-256	172.9
MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC	177.4
Albatron 8600GT-256	164.3
MSI NX8500GT-TD256E	111.4
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	178.1
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	179.8
MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC	165.2
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	143.8
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	137.1
Gigabyte GV-NX85T256H (dual GFX cards in SLI)	133.6
UQ 1600x1200	FPS	Ranking
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT	137.4
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire	157.2
MSI RX2600XT Diamond	125.8
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	130.3
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	108
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E	185.7
Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC	177.3
MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC	178.2
GeForce 8600GTS SLI	171.7
Foxconn 8600GTS-256	125.4
MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC	127
Albatron 8600GT-256	118.9
MSI NX8500GT-TD256E	57.8
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	172.2
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	160.1
MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC	115.6
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	104.5
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	91.5
Gigabyte GV-NX85T256H (dual GFX cards in SLI)	95.7

FEAR results are pretty good even up to UQ at 1600x1200! Compared to the a single GeForce 8500GT we see a nice performance boost when the dual Gigabyte GV-NX85T256H's are working together in SLI.