PC World - USA (2019-02)

42 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2019

REVIEWS NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2060 FOUNDERS EDITION

It’s just as gorgeous as its

predecessors, and even more fun.

Ghost Recon Wildlands

Move over, Crysis. If you crank up

all the graphics options 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. Only the RTX 2070

manages to surpass 60fps even at

1080p resolution with these

strenuous visual settings.

Ghost Recon Wildlands

also prefers Nvidia’s GPU

architecture, and Nvidia’s RTX

2060 FE pulls ahead of AMD’s rival

Vega 56 by 13.5 percent at 1080p.

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

AMVega 56D Radeon

Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti (FE)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 (FE)

AMVega 64D Radeon

Nvidia GeForce

GTX 1080 (FE)

Nvidia GeForce

RTX 2070 (FE)

Ghost Recon Wildlands

(Frames per second)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

42

44.6

45.6

44.4

46.1

52.5

54.3

58

65.7

51.9

57.7

58.9

1080p 1440p

AMD Radeon

Vega 56

Nvidia GTX

1070 Ti (FE)

Nvidia GeForce

RTX 2060 (FE)

AMD Radeon

Vega 64

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 (FE)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 (FE)

Middle-earth: Shadow of War

(Frames per second)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

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63

71

69

66

82

102

99

117

93

94

104

1080p 1440p