Total War: Rome II
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Providing an excellent mix of strategy and action, Total War: Rome II's epic turn-based gameplay can swallow hours of your life. Our 60-second benchmark uses the built-in Extreme preset at 1080p and the Ultra preset at 4K.
A well-overclocked GeForce GTX 980 is consistently faster than the Radeon R9 290X. The gap to a highly-clocked GeForce GTX 970 remains the same 20 per cent.
The loading menu for Total War is also our informal test for the dreaded coil whine. The sample Classified exhibits a very small amount of whine that's only detectable if the user is purposely listening out for it. The whine, if we can call it that, is below average in relation to the various GTX 980s that have passed through the labs in the last two months.
