Review: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

Benchmarks - Total War: Shogun 2

Where2buy: amazon.co.uk

Homepage: totalwar.com/shogun2 | Publisher: Sega | Developer: The Creative Assembly

Praised both by critics and gamers, the latest instalment of the Total War series takes strategy enthusiasts back to 16th-century Japan and presents a lavish blend of 3D real-time battles and turn-based management.

Falling a few per cent off the pace of two GTX 680s in SLI but a touch quicker than a couple of Radeon HD 7970s, NVIDIA's dual-GPU champ continues to put up a good showing.