A lot has been said about Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor‘s requirements on PC, but today we can check out its performance on a rig sporting a rather high end GTX 970 with 4 gigabytes of video RAM.

YouTube user teoKrazia ran the in-game benchmark at maximum settings, and clocked an average of 73 frames per seconds, a maximum of almost 378 and the occasional dip down to 42.

The full hardware profile of the PC used is as follows:

Intel i5 2500K@4.4, GeForce GTX 970 Twin FROZR V with FoceWare 344.11 WHQL drivers, 8 GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 MHz.

Incidentally, the benchmark also looks absolutely lovely. You can check the video out below.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/09/29/shadow-of-mordors-spectacular-benchmark-clocks-73-fps-on-a-gtx-970-at-maximum-settings/

Idk, I want to say its badly optimized cause I feel like you shouldn't need a GTX 970 to run it max settings but I havn't played the game yet so we will see

If you pause it at :16 it says under Texure Quality that you need the Ultra HD Texure pack installed to get the  difference between high and ultra. So my question is does he have the Ultra HD Texure pack installed?

So... I am guessing Ultra HD texture pack is for 4k textures then?

I would assume it is. All I can find on it was that its an optional download.

I would've preferred if the benchmark had more transparency activity to really show how well their OIT scheme can keep up shading the fragments with respect to blending order constraints ...

Am I missing something, or did Nvidia skip a generation? Last I checked, the new cards were supposed to be 800's, no?

They skipped much like the GeForce 200 series to the GeForce 400 series ...

800s are out but they are just for the mobile devices like laptops

I see. Thanks. I just did a search, and it looks like the 960 is releasing next month! I'd been wondering why I couldn't fond any info on the 760 successor. I've been searching for the wrong card.