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.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is one of the most memory-intensive titles in our suite and appears to favour AMD's compression-based bandwidth optimisations. R9 380X gets close to GTX 970 in this game and continues to fulfill its brief: at around £200 there's nothing better.