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.
Fury X and 980 Ti trade heavyweight punch after punch in Shadow of Mordor.
But here is something the average and frame consistency graphs don't tell you. The GTX 980 Ti produces very similar results but, crucially, its 99th percentile frame time is considerably better. We actually noticed this when in the game, as the Fury X's 'slow bits' felt more sticky than the GeForce's. Is this a problem of running ultra-level settings at 4K with a 4GB framebuffer? The evidence would seem to suggest so, as the R9 295X2, equipped with 4GB per GPU, also suffers the same fate.
Winner: GeForce GTX 980 Ti.
