DX11: Middle Earth Shadow Mordor

Middle Earth: Shadow Mordor Benchmarks

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.

So, in the chart above the result you should focus on is the first entry at 2560x1440. The internal benchmark is a good reproducible benchmark for you guys as well. When we move up to Ultra HD (3840x2160) we see roughly 45 FPS on average. Once I fire off an even higher resolution of 5K Ultra HD at 5210x2880 then that is where we start to see the new limitation, but it is still at roughly 30 FPS.

And back to 2560x1440 - this is roughly the performance picture you will see with the Nano, close to Radeon R9 Fury performance levels and passing or at the least matching the GeForce GTX 980 due to thermal/power throttling. Let's call it like it is, these are impressive performance figures for a card of this size and cooling capacity.