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by Ian Cutress on January 30, 2019 9:00 AM ESTGaming: Shadow of the Tomb Raider (DX12)
The latest instalment of the Tomb Raider franchise does less rising and lurks more in the shadows with Shadow of the Tomb Raider. As expected this action-adventure follows Lara Croft which is the main protagonist of the franchise as she muscles through the Mesoamerican and South American regions looking to stop a Mayan apocalyptic she herself unleashed. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the direct sequel to the previous Rise of the Tomb Raider and was developed by Eidos Montreal and Crystal Dynamics and was published by Square Enix which hit shelves across multiple platforms in September 2018. This title effectively closes the Lara Croft Origins story and has received critical acclaims upon its release.
The integrated Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark is similar to that of the previous game Rise of the Tomb Raider, which we have used in our previous benchmarking suite. The newer Shadow of the Tomb Raider uses DirectX 11 and 12, with this particular title being touted as having one of the best implementations of DirectX 12 of any game released so far.
AnandTech CPU Gaming 2019 Game List | ||||||||
Game | Genre | Release Date | API | IGP | Low | Med | High | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | Action | Sep 2018 |
DX12 | 720p Low |
1080p Medium |
1440p High |
4K Highest |
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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Yorgos - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
I don't know what's more delusional, Intel selling a 500Watt CPUor fanboys thinking that this product will sell well at $3000.
Listen buddy, most sales from these systems come from Dell, HP and/or Lenovo workstations.
Nobody is going to bother messing with a cpu that's a fire hazard, gives you the same PCI-e lanes as a $300 CPU and you are obliged, as Dell/HP/Lenovo, to buy special motherboards from asus or another manufacturer.
Finally, the product placement here from Purch media targets Gamers, plus intel targets gamers.
This is just a shelf product, just like 8700k and 9900k to fight for the first position in some benchmarks, against zen, due to the unfortunate circumstances of zen being that good.
This product takes binned cpus away from much higher priced Xeons. They are not going to make great numbers available, by default, even if they could supply the market.
eddman - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
"delusional", "fanboys", "Listen buddy", "fire hazard"You don't have to get so emotional to make a point.
Yorgos - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
I like my comments to be vivid.I don't write NPC comments.
Arbie - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
Then you should move to somewhere like Wccftech, where you won't even have to rationalize picking fights and being gratuitously rude. People like you ruin the tone of a quality forum.eddman - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
Being vulgar and crass isn't the same as being "vivid". If you cannot reply without resorting to name calling, then this not the place for you.WasHopingForAnHonestReview - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
What part of his comment insulted you, snowflake?eddman - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
I didn't say he's not right.None. The point is this is a tech site. There is no need for such remarks.
"Snowflake"
This is what I'm talking about. Randomly calling people names with no reason. You don't even know me.
PeachNCream - Thursday, January 31, 2019 - link
I've run a lot of paper and pencil RPGs over the years and I'm disappointed to say that a number of my cookie cutter NPCs had more personality than some of the player characters, but I'm one of those story first GM types.WasHopingForAnHonestReview - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
Buzzwords or not the man is right.BGADK - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
You have no idea what professional software costs. In the end my clients dont care if the PC costs 5000USD, 7000 USD or 12000USD.The difference disapear when you add the software costs and my fee.