F.E.A.R. Performance

F.E.A.R. – Direct3D

FEAR Performance 1600x1200x32
Card	Min FPS	Max FPS
GeForce 8800 Ultra	49	235
GeForce 8800 GTX	44	211
GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB	32	140
GeForce 8800 GTS OC2	36	158
Radeon HD 2900 XT	22	139
Radeon HD 2900 XT CrossFire	25	315
GeForce 8800 GTS OC2 SLI	56	369
Radeon HD 2900 XT Alphadriver	23	137
Sapphire Radeon HD 2900 XT	23	139

Notes

The Radeon HD 2900 XT’s performance improves dramatically in comparison to the GeForce 8800 cards in FEAR, which is one of the more shader-intensive games that we test with. As you can see, the 2900 XT still falls behind the factory overclocked GeForce 8800 GTS card at lower screen resolutions, but once the resolution is increased and memory bandwidth becomes more of a factor, the Radeon 2900 XT is able to pull ahead thanks to its 512-bit memory interface. Keep in mind that this doesn’t occur until 2560x1600 though, which is a higher resolution than most users will game at.