Shadow of Mordor

The next title in our testing is a battle of system performance with the open world action-adventure title, Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (SoM for short). Produced by Monolith and using the LithTech Jupiter EX engine and numerous detail add-ons, SoM goes for detail and complexity. The main story itself was written by the same writer as Red Dead Redemption, and it received Zero Punctuation’s Game of The Year in 2014.

A 2014 game is fairly old to be testing now, however SoM has a stable code and player base, and can still stress a PC down to the ones and zeroes. At the time, SoM was unique, offering a dynamic screen resolution setting allowing users to render at high resolutions that are then scaled down to the monitor. This form of natural oversampling was designed to let the user experience a truer vision of what the developers wanted, assuming you had the graphics hardware to power it but had a sub-4K monitor.

The title has an in-game benchmark, for which we run with an automated script implement the graphics settings, select the benchmark, and parse the frame-time output which is dumped on the drive. The graphics settings include standard options such as Graphical Quality, Lighting, Mesh, Motion Blur, Shadow Quality, Textures, Vegetation Range, Depth of Field, Transparency and Tessellation. There are standard presets as well.

We run the benchmark at 1080p and a native 4K, using our 4K monitors, at the Ultra preset. Results are averaged across four runs and we report the average frame rate, 99th percentile frame rate, and time under analysis.

All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.

 

ASRock RX 580 Performance

Shadow of Mordor (1080p, Ultra)Shadow of Mordor (1080p, Ultra)

Shadow of Mordor (4K, Ultra)Shadow of Mordor (4K, Ultra)

GPU Tests: Civilization 6 GPU Tests: Rise of the Tomb Raider
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  • Oxford Guy - Thursday, June 14, 2018 - link

    Welcome to marketing — land of emotion.
  • twtech - Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - link

    It seems like the only good reason to buy this processor would be for the preferential binning - it's kind of like a manufacturer official version of Silicon Lottery.
  • xpto - Thursday, June 14, 2018 - link

    New Vulnerability hits Intel processors - Lazy FP State Restore

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  • jarf1n - Thursday, June 14, 2018 - link

    well i know and few more that anatech are and clear long time amd support and cant make test without raise amd gpus and cpus someway better.
    sad...
    but we are not idiots
    its clear that both 6-core cpus 870k0 and 8086 are much better cpus than amds 8-core ryzen 2700x. that is clear fact

    2700x is 8-core and still loose 3dmarks what is historical.. bcoz never bfore cpu that own more cores LOOSE cpu wich have less them.
    its tell clear that ryzen 2700x is weak and also mem problem show it.
    2700x cant handle high timing and hertz,

    2700x is better and really shod be for mathematic apz,but as i say ITS 8-CORE CPU.

    still it loose many test.

    and for thouse importants games and 3dmarks its loose and clear.

    when intels ALSO 8-core cpu guess 9700k release we really see how bad 2700z is.
    i can say that 8-core 2700x loose clear for intels 9700k 8-core cpu.

    ok..then 6700k vs 8086 cpu

    well its clear that 8086 is better than 8700k,bcoz 8086 is hand picket cpus and oc'd better than 8700k.

    so its mean 8086 ov'c higher,running lower heat ...exmaple all 8086 ov'd easily 5ghz, many 8700k not. only best.. and i took 24/7 use.

    sure if you get good 8700k its different,but if different is example anatech saying 75$ that i can get good cpu i pay it for joy!

    if you want best gaming rig buy:

    asus hero x
    2x8gb 4000mhz cl17 mem
    8086 or 8700k cpu and ocäd it about 5ghz
    buy more nvidia gtx 1080 ti

    then u have gaming rig that amd cant beat near 2 years...think about it...

    gtx 1080 ti is old shit and amd vega only few month old still no chance.
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  • alpha754293 - Tuesday, June 19, 2018 - link

    FYI - On the overclocking CPU page - GeekBench MT chart is a duplicate of the CineBench MT chart.
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    I wasnt expecting much out of the 8086k over the 8700k... but this is truely underwhelming. Only a single core turbo boost? I was expecting all the boost tiers to be higher. And same tdp....so there goes it doing anything more at stock.

    I wasnt going to buy one anyway....so i guess it doesnt matter. I completely agree that intel could have and should have done more.
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