FEAR is Sierra's latest first person shooter which relies heavily on DirectX 9 features. With its "Soft Shadows" feature enabled, even the fastest video cards run at a crawl, FEAR is definitely the new benchmark for future FPS games to follow.

Sierra FEAR SS Disabled 1600x1200 - AA/AF Tests 8x AA: Points Ranking Palit HD4870 X2 2GB 145 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A 69 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A (Crossfire) 126 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC 38 Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 37 Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M 52 Diamond HD 3650 PE 512 26.7 nVidia Geforce 9600GTs in SLI 120 Asus EN9600GT Top/HTDI/512M 65 Foxconn 9600GT-512NOC 69 Palit Geforce 9600GT 512 69 Biostar V903GT52-NV1AN 63 MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E 65 Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC 39 MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC 36 Palit 8800GT Super+ 1GB 131 MSI NX8800GT-T2D512E-OC 63 Foxconn 8600GTS-256 25 MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 25 Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS 21 16x AA: Points Ranking Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A 41 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A (Crossfire) 39 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC 22 nVidia Geforce 9600GTs in SLI 121 Asus EN9600GT Top/HTDI/512M 65 Foxconn 9600GT-512NOC 69 Palit Geforce 9600GT 512 68 Biostar V903GT52-NV1AN 62 MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E 65 Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC 39 MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC 36 Palit 8800GT Super+ 1GB 63 MSI NX8800GT-T2D512E-OC 63 Foxconn 8600GTS-256 25 MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 25 8xQ AA / 8x AF Points Ranking Palit HD4870 X2 2GB 144 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A 68 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A (Crossfire) 125 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC 39 Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 59 Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M 52 Diamond HD 3650 PE 512 8 nVidia Geforce 9600GTs in SLI 82 Asus EN9600GT Top/HTDI/512M 43 Foxconn 9600GT-512NOC 46 Palit Geforce 9600GT 512 46 Biostar V903GT52-NV1AN 42 MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E 64 Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC 29 MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC 27 Palit 8800GT Super+ 1GB 40 MSI NX8800GT-T2D512E-OC 44 Foxconn 8600GTS-256 13 MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 13 Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS 20 16xQ AA / 16x AF Points Ranking Palit HD4870 X2 2GB 75 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A 40 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A (Crossfire) 40 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC 41 Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 36 Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M 52 Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A 63 nVidia Geforce 9600GTs in SLI 37 Asus EN9600GT Top/HTDI/512M 36 Foxconn 9600GT-512NOC 40 Palit Geforce 9600GT 512 36 Biostar V903GT52-NV1AN 33 MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E 38.5 MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC 34 Palit 8800GT Super+ 1GB 36 GeForce 8600GTS SLI 10 Foxconn 8600GTS-256 10 Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH 29

The higher AA/AF modes choke our ASUS EAH3870 X2's performance - we also see better performance from the ASUS product versus the MSI 3870 X2.