Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor Is Easily One Of The Most Demanding Linux Games

For ultra quality settings at 1080p, the GTX 980 Ti and GTX TITAN X were the only two graphics cards capable of running above 60 FPS for Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor on Ubuntu Linux. Aside from the results, just wanted to mention that I didn't run into any rendering issues or stability problems for all of these tested NVIDIA graphics cards on the proprietary driver -- much better than the encountered Catalyst problems. I'm loving Shadow of Mordor for stressing graphics cards / drivers on Linux hard, if only there were the complete automation support.

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GeForce GTX 650: 2.85 / 7.70 / 37.33
GeForce GTX 680: 10.45 / 24.65 / 51.17
GeForce GT 740: 2/89 / 7.92 / 38.15
GeForce GTX 750: 3.84 / 10.31 / 40.27
GeForce GTX 750 Ti: 6.92 / 18.08 / 33.35
GeForce GTX 760: 8.65 / 22.65 / 41.52
GeForce GTX 780 Ti: 28.04 / 56.63 / 93.25
GeForce GTX 980: 28.45 / 56.82 / 89.07
GeForce GTX 980 Ti: 31.46 / 63.00 / 118.25
GeForce GTX TITAN X: 31.32 / 61.86 / 113.94

For those with slower GTX 600/700 graphics cards, you'll either need to consider a graphics card upgrade or drop the resolution and use the "lowest" image quality option.

This new Linux game is currently selling for $25 rather than $50 as part of this weekend's SteamOS sale. I'll have more Shadow of Mordor Linux tests if/when Feral Games is able to provide CLI switches for being able to finish automating the game's benchmark mode. If you appreciate the tests done of this AAA Linux game, please be kind with a PayPal tip or Phoronix Premium subscription so that all of this Linux hardware testing may continue.