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.
A single card's performance is a tad ropey at 4K. Two cards provide a 70 per cent-plus boost in performance, but is it smooth?
We go from having just a few frames rendered within 25ms to almost all of them. A good show here.
And SLI is a good fit for this game; the worst one per cent of frames start at just 24.7ms. Having logged over 50 hours into this title and then playing a little with two GTX 970 GPUs reveals the graphics setup to be nice and smooth. There's something intrinsically fun about going crazy with the ranger's sword at a crystal-clear 4K resolution.
Going back to an earlier point and taking due heed of the slowest one per cent of frames and correlation between it and the average framerate, we'd still go for a single Titan X instead, budget permitting.
