Shootouts

Q3 2006 Midrange GPU Shootout

By Vincent Chang - 4 Aug 2006

Results - F.E.A.R (DirectX 9 Benchmark)

Results - F.E.A.R (DirectX 9 Benchmark)

When it was first released, F.E.A.R made its mark for bringing even high-end graphics cards to their knees thanks to its use of the latest graphics advancements. Hence, this game was duly selected as one of our benchmarks. With most of the settings set to high, we managed to get playable performance from only two cards in the midrange segment, naturally the Radeon X1800 GTO and GeForce 7600 GT and that too at 1024 x 768. For the other cards, we would recommend that you thumb down the in-game graphics quality settings to avoid a slideshow experience. Overall, ATI cards seem to handle the transition to anti-aliasing more gracefully, as the drop in frame rates was less drastic compared to NVIDIA. However, that point may be moot as the best ATI card here, the Radeon X1800 GTO barely manages to produce decent frame rates in the first place with anti-aliasing. This shows that ATI has a superior graphics engine, but not necessarily helpful at this level of play.

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