PC World (2019-04)

APRIL 2019 PCWorld 45

Ghost Recon Wildlands

Move over, Crysis. If you crank

all the graphics options up to

11, like we do for these tests,

Ghost Recon Wildlands ($50 on

Humble at go.pcworld.com/

recn) and its AnvilNext 2.0

engine absolutely melts GPUs.

Ghost Recon Wildlands also

prefers Nvidia’s GPU

architecture in general.

Middle-earth:

Shadow of War

Middle-earth: Shadow of War

($50 on Humble at

go.pcworld.com/shwr) adds a

strategic layer to the series’

sublime core gameplay loop,

adapting the Nemesis system

to let you create an army

of personalized Orc

commanders. It plays like a

champ on PC, too, thanks to

Monolith’s custom LithTech

Firebird engine. We use the

Ultra graphics preset but drop

the Shadow and Texture

Quality settings to High to

avoid exceeding 8GB of VRAM

usage in our testing scenario,

because graphics cards that

exceed 8GB of capacity are

rare indeed.

Sapphire Radeon
RX 590 Nitro+

EVGA GeForce GTX
1660 Ti XC Ultra

Asus ROG Strix
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Nvidia GeForce
GTX 1070 (FE)

AMVega 56D Radeon

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 (FE)

Middle-earth: Shadow of War
(Frames per second)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

45

60

60

56

62

71

84

93

104

66

88

88

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Sapphire Radeon RX 590 Nitro+

EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti XC Ultra

Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 (FE)

AMD Radeon
Vega 56

Nvidia GeForce
RTX 2060 (FE)

Ghost Recon Wildlands
(Frames per second)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

33

41.1

41.7

40.5

42

45.6

52

51.9

58.9

41.8

52.8

53.4

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