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Performance - Single GPU - Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor

DX11: Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is an action role-playing video game set in The Lord of the Rings universe, developed by Monolith Productions and released by Warner Bros. The game takes place during the gap between the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings saga. We set image quality to in-game 'Very High'. Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor has a built in benchmark. It is not exactly the most precise tool in the shed, therefore you should always keep a variance of roughly 5% in mind. You can run this benchmark 3 times and all times the results can differ slightly. Also switching in-between quality modes and restarting the game often results in the game forcing old image quality settings again. We'll see how this benchmark is going to develop in the future though.


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Above the results at the best image quality settings. We are testing at 2560x1440 (WHQD) with image quality settings set to Very High. We find the Ultra quality settings to be very heavy on VRAM with the internal benchmark, as such we recommend Very High quality settings to use and compare to. With an exception here and there, this is roughly what you will see in terms of performance difference, from Gen 1.1 to 3.0 that is close to 2.5 FPS on average, not at all significant.

Frametime Recording


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  • Grey line - GTX 980 @ x16 Gen 1.1
  • Dark green line - GTX 980 @ x16 Gen 2.0
  • Light green line - GTX 980 @ x16 Gen 3.0

Our FCAT FPS percentile chart is not 100% due to a small error in the recording, the Gen 2.0 was recorded for 2 second longer after the benchmark had finished. The following graph will give you a more representative indication.

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We again spread out the 45 second benchmark recording and then overlay latency results from the difference generation PCIE slots (lower latency - better) we can see a hint better as to what you are seeing on screen. The latency differences in-between the PCIE Slot configurations are minimum at best. 

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