Middle-earth: Shadow of War (DX11)

Next up is Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the sequel to Shadow of Mordor. Developed by Monolith, whose last hit was arguably F.E.A.R., Shadow of Mordor returned them to the spotlight with an innovative NPC rival generation and interaction system called the Nemesis System, along with a storyline based on J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, and making it work on a highly modified engine that originally powered F.E.A.R. in 2005.

Using the new LithTech Firebird engine, Shadow of War improves on the detail and complexity, and with free add-on high resolution texture packs, offers itself as a good example of getting the most graphics out of an engine that may not be bleeding edge. Shadow of War also supports HDR (HDR10).

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  • Retycint - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link

    So you think its performance level is not worthy of its price tag? In that case then you wouldn't find a single GPU on the market right now that can meet your price/performance standards
  • piroroadkill - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link

    So.. NVIDIA's back to their old ways of giving cards too little RAM. Their cards have typically had much less RAM than the ones from AMD. So the 2060 is a tiny bit faster than a 1070 Ti... But loses 2GB of VRAM. Once you start using over 6GB VRAM, the 2060 is going to lose hard to the 1070 Ti. Price is also too high. A firm "meh".
  • mkaibear - Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - link

    How about identifying a couple of games in which the 1070Ti "wins hard" over the 2060?

    I think you'll find that the 6Gb of RAM is more than enough to run games at the resolutions that the 1070Ti or 2060 excel at (1080p fast or 1440p 60Hz)

    Disagree? provide me with some evidence!
  • prateekprakash - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link

    Maybe AIB partners should offer one custom rtx 2060 with 12gb vram by using 2gb gddr6 chips, that may be helpful down the road...
  • evernessince - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link

    So who's going to bet this card doesn't launch at MSRP like every other Nvidia card this generation? You might as well throw away any price/performance comparison done in this article as well all know there is going to be Nvidia tax thrown on top of that price tag.

    If this is Nvidia's new mainstream card, I hate to see the price tag on their "budget" $200 2050.
  • catavalon21 - Thursday, March 7, 2019 - link

    I am surprised that the answer to your question is "well, actually, many are" available at or about MSRP. The one thing I'm puzzle by, is even though the article states NVIDIA will sell their own cards (as they have and do for many other models), I haven't seen one listed on NVIDIA's site (other than linking to AIB cards) since day one.
  • catavalon21 - Thursday, March 7, 2019 - link

    *puzzled* - need more coffee
  • overseer - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link

    My sense tells me that RTX 2000 series will be a short-lived line, and NV shall come up with the next-gen (be it called 3000 series or not) on 7nm later this year. Why bother buying a half-node-like card now?
  • sing_electric - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link

    Well, people who are building now, for one. There's still a lot of people who were put off upgrades when mining shot prices through the roof; this is a new entry that's significantly faster than say, $200 cards.

    Having said that, I tend to agree with you: 7nm will probably offer significantly better performance, and if you care about raytracing, it's really the games that *started* development after the RTX came out that will show a real benefit (instead of seeing a reflection in one pond in one part of one map or something), and those games will be coming out around the time that the next-gen RTX will anyways.
  • richough3 - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link

    The reality is that this card, spec wise is a replacement of the 1070, but to call it a 2070 would show small performance increases vs calling it 2060. With it being faster than a 1070 at $30 less MSRP, it's an okay upgrade from a 1060, although I would have rather had 8+ GB RAM. I would expect the 2050 TI to have similar specs as a 1060, although with just 4 GB RAM.

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