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.
The tides are turned in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. Known to be a heavy user of graphics memory, this is a title that benefits from the R9 390X's 8GB frame buffer, and it's the first game in our suite in which the AMD card comfortably beats the reference GTX 980 across all resolutions. Gameplay remains silky smooth at 2,560x1,440, though demanding 3,840x2,160 is a step too far.
