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by Ian Cutress on October 29, 2018 9:00 AM ESTGaming: Shadow of War
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).
| AnandTech CPU Gaming 2019 Game List | ||||||||
| Game | Genre | Release Date | API | IGP | Low | Med | High | |
| Shadow of War | Action / RPG | Sep 2017 |
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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snowranger13 - Monday, October 29, 2018 - link
On the AMD SKUs slide you show Ryzen 7 2700X has 16 PCI-E lanes. It actually has 20 (16 to PCI-E slots + 4 to 1x M.2)Ian Cutress - Monday, October 29, 2018 - link
Only 16 for graphics use. We've had this discussion many times before. Technically the silicon has 32.Nioktefe - Monday, October 29, 2018 - link
Many motherboards can use that 4 additionnal lanes as classic pci-ehttps://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B450%20Pro4/index.as...
mapesdhs - Monday, October 29, 2018 - link
Sure, but not for SLI. It's best for clarity's sake to exclude chipset PCIe in the lane count, otherwise we'll have no end of PR spin madness.Ratman6161 - Monday, October 29, 2018 - link
Ummm...there are lots of uses for more PCIe besides SLI ! Remember that while people do play games on these platforms, it would not make any sense to buy one of these for the purpose of playing games. You buy it for work and if it happens to game OK then great.TheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - link
Is it guaranteed to be wired up to a physical slot?No?
then it is optional, and advertising it as being guaranteed available for expansion would be false advertising.
TechnicallyLogic - Thursday, February 28, 2019 - link
By that logic, Intel CPUs have no PCIE slots, as there are LGA 1151 Mini STX motherboards with no x16 slot at all. I think a good compromise would be to list the CPU as having 16+4 PCIE slots.Yorgos - Friday, November 2, 2018 - link
for clarity's sake they should report the 9900k at 250Watt TDP.selective clarity is purch media's approach, though.
2700x has 20 pcie lanes, period. if some motherboard manufacturers use it for nvme or as an extra x4 pcie slot, it's not up to debate for a "journalist" to include it or exclude it, it's fucking there.
unless the money are good ofc... everyone has their price.
TheGiantRat - Monday, October 29, 2018 - link
Technically the silicon of each die has total of 128 PCI-E lanes. Each die on Ryzen Threadripper and Epyc has 64 lanes for external buses and 64 lanes for IF. Therefore, the total is 128 lanes. They just have it limited to 20 lanes for consumer grade CPUs.atragorn - Monday, October 29, 2018 - link
Why are the epyc scores so low across the board? I dont expect it to game well but it was at the bottom or close to it for everything it seemed