F.E.A.R.
FEAR (Direct X)
One of the most impressive games of E3 2005 is turning out to be one of the most graphically intense as well. Even with the 7800 GTX and X1800 XT I didn’t find the game playable at 1600×1200 with all the details turned on:
*** Note: we have disabled Soft Shadows in all the below tests despite what the screen indicates above. And since we were using the retail game this time, I opted to use the in-game “settings test” fly by to compare performance.
FEAR is an extremely demanding game on the GPU as these graphs and data show you. The three single card configurations perform very similarly, with the X1800 XT having only a very small lead. The BFG 7900 GT OC does a good job edging past the reference card and pairing two of them in SLI brings us some dramatic performance increases.
