Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
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One of the highest-rated games of 2014, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is an excellent open-world adventure and uses the LithTech Jupiter EX to deliver eye-catching visuals. Putting the strain on these mid-to-high-end cards, we test with Ultra quality settings at FHD and QHD, and notch things down to Very High quality for 4K UHD.
No amount of core overclock is going to help in games that put heavy demands on memory. Shadow of Mordor is a good example of that, and the GTX 960 with 2GB of memory allied to a 128-bit bus really begins to struggle. A cheaper 3GB Radeon R9 280 is up to 44 per cent faster in this particular title.
