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

Like yesterday's article, the data shown is min / avg / max FPS.

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1920 x 1080
LOW QUALITY SETTINGS
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GeForce GTX 650: 8.07 / 22.11 / 42.70
GeForce GTX 680: 23.24 / 71.70 / 125.87
GeForce GT 740: 9.32 / 22.29 / 45.60
GeForce GTX 750: 9.27 / 29.88 / 53.54
GeForce GTX 750 Ti: 19.09 / 42.75 / 60.15
GeForce GTX 760: 33.11 / 61.32 / 93.91
GeForce GTX 780 Ti: 24.55 / 72.46 / 134.19
GeForce GTX 980: 36.83 / 74.39 / 136.58
GeForce GTX 980 Ti: 35.77 / 71.49 / 130.15
GeForce GTX TITAN X: 40.21 / 73.56 / 135.71

Well, even with just low quality settings at 1920 x 1080, the GeForce GTX 760 or higher was needed to deliver above a 60 FPS average. The GTX 650, GT 740, and GTX 750 / 750 Ti all came up well short of being able to run with the low settings at 1080p. There is a "lowest" pre-set quality option, but that wasn't tested for this comparison due to having to make these changes manually as opposed to a Phoronix Test Suite test profile.

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1920 x 1080
HIGH QUALITY SETTINGS
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GeForce GTX 650: 4.67 / 13.44 / 33.73
GeForce GTX 680: 29.01 / 54.41 / 78.10
GeForce GT 740: 5.40 / 13.76 / 41.73
GeForce GTX 750: 7.74 / 18.60 / 43.85
GeForce GTX 750 Ti: 19.93 / 28.10 / 37.76
GeForce GTX 760: 29.77 / 42.87 / 58.84
GeForce GTX 780 Ti: 32.57 / 63.98 / 118.88
GeForce GTX 980: 29.32 / 63.53 / 111.37
GeForce GTX 980 Ti: 30.19 / 65.79 / 124.80
GeForce GTX TITAN X: 27.41 / 65.87 / 129.43

When jumping over to high quality settings, the GTX 780 Ti and higher were able to deliver above a 60 FPS average at 1080p.