The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Founders Edition Review: Mid-Range Turing, High-End Price
by Nate Oh on October 16, 2018 9:00 AM ESTMiddle-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).
Shadow of War is one of the more favorable games in terms of the 20 series' performance gains over Pascal, and this carries over to the RTX 2070. The resulting situation is rather favorable for the RTX 2070, as it creeps up on or even overtakes the GTX 1080 Ti, while the RTX 2080 Ti and 2080 perform comfortably above. So even when the RX Vega outperforms the GTX 1080, the RTX 2070 is a tier above.
Regardless, at 1080p we start to see the flagships reach the CPU bottleneck.
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Jon Tseng - Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - link
Anandtech review out on time? What is the world coming to???MrSpadge - Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - link
That was a nate review. Ehm, I mean neat.ianmills - Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - link
Oh, I get it!bug77 - Wednesday, October 17, 2018 - link
Oh, nate! I mean, oh neat!dollarshort - Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - link
Technically a day late if you count Kyle B's review ;)Jon Tseng - Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - link
BUT I WANT MY REVIEWS TO HAVE LOTS OF EGREGIOUS TECHNICAL DETAIL AND DROP 2 WEEKS LATE! :-pimaheadcase - Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - link
Apparently its come to flying around the globe to tech conferences, reporting on news than actual product.mkaibear - Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - link
Waa! Waa! My free entertainment isn't exactly what I want it to be, time to get on my keyboard and complain about it.Grow up. Or go elsewhere. Anandtech is doing a great job given the constraints they operate under.
Diji1 - Wednesday, October 17, 2018 - link
Waa! Waa! This comment isn't exactly what I want it to be, time to get on my keyboard and complain about it.Grow up. Or go elsewhere. imaheadcase is doing a great job given the constraints they operate under.
GreenReaper - Thursday, October 18, 2018 - link
Like... being a headcase? >_>Sometimes the flying is part of getting the product to review. Other times... well, trade shows and the like are sometimes compensation for the level of pay provided by an online news reporting gig. This isn't the glory days of Personal Computer World, with issues 600-pages thick with ads.