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.
You could attach a cooler the size of a house and raise boost clocks to dizzying heights, but it probably wouldn't help in Shadow of Mordor. This game's intense use of memory highlights the GTX 960's weak spot: a 2GB frame buffer hooked-up to a narrow 128-bit bus.
