F.E.A.R. and Quake 4
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R., a game by Monolith, loves to make a mockery of any graphics hardware you may have installed. The basic render activity that F.E.A.R. does is shader bound on all modern hardware, therefore the better you process its pixel shader programs the faster it likes to draw things on your screen, at a basic level at least.
There's not much between the two at first glance. Looking at the 1920x1200 score shows a 5% lead for the ASUS EAX1800XT TOP, though, and that board leads our F.E.A.R. test throughout.
Quake 4
Quake 4 does not have the same performance profile as Doom 3, despite sharing the same engine. Its shader program for light interaction is different, making it a harder test for modern hardware.
The Radeon can't hold off the GeForce in Quake 4, like it did in F.E.A.R. The XFX board has the measure of the ASUS throughout, to the tune of a few percent at the high end.
