Just Cause 2 and Total War: Rome II
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Just Cause 2 is one of the older titles in our suite and uses DX10 visuals. It's no longer cutting edge, but it's still a lot of fun and can be used to cross-reference older reviews.
Just Cause 2 is another game that poses no real threat to these high-end graphics cards. Notably, for the first time, the Radeon manages to sneak ahead of the GeForce.
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There's once again little to separate the two, as both the GeForce and the Radeon deliver a fast and smooth experience.
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Providing an excellent mix of strategy and action, Total War: Rome II's epic turn-based gameplay can swallow hours of your life.
Driver improvements / game optimisations really seem to have helped Nvidia's cause in Total War: Rome II. This particular title used to shine on AMD hardware, but MSI's GeForce GTX 780 Ti Gaming now has the edge over Sapphire's Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X.
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In keeping with most of the games on show, the GeForce maintains a performance advantage. MSI's card executes out a greater percentage of sub-33ms frames and this small-but-measurable performance gap over the R9 290X is what allows the GeForce to fetch a price premium at retail.