Does Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor have an FPS cap?

Yes. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor caps the frame rate at 100 FPS by default, so a faster graphics card will not show more than 100 FPS.

What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor at 1080p?

By our estimate (±30%), the GTX 1650 is the least powerful of our 10 reference cards to reach 60 FPS at 1080p High, at about 78 FPS. No published benchmark of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor?

By our estimate it gets about 100 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 78 FPS at 1080p High (smooth), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor?

Steam lists NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 | AMD Radeon HD 5850 graphics, Intel Core i5-750, 2.67 GHz | AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.4 GHz and 3 GB of RAM as the minimum.

Measured FPS benchmarks

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor FPS

2014
79/100 · 1,394 ratings
Capped at 100 FPS

Role-playing
Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Adventure

Measured · 5 results4 GPUs · Notebookcheckestimate within ±30%: 4/5

Check FPS on your GPU

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor was released in 2014. We list 5 published FPS results for it from Notebookcheck, covering 4 graphics cards. Steam lists NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 | AMD Radeon HD 5850 as the minimum graphics card, about what integrated graphics deliver today. Against those results our estimate landed within ±30% 4 of 5 times.

Frame rate cap: 100 FPS. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor limits the frame rate to 100 FPS by default, so no graphics card shows more than that. Our estimates stop at 100 FPS too.

Measured results

Published · with sources

60+ FPS 30–59 under 30 lower bound (frame cap, CPU or VRAM limit). Average FPS from published tests.

GTX 1050 TiUltra58.2Notebookcheck
GTX 1050Ultra44.9Notebookcheck
Radeon Vega 8High21Notebookcheck
Radeon Vega 8Ultra16Notebookcheck
Intel UHD Graphics 620High11.3Notebookcheck

At 1080p the fastest measured card, GTX 1050 Ti, averages 58 FPS; the slowest, Intel UHD Graphics 620, 11 FPS.

Estimate vs measured

4/5 within ±30% · median 0%

Each dot is one published result: how far our model's figure for the same card and setting was from it. The shaded band is ±30%.

All 5 comparisons

GPU	Setting	Measured	Estimate	Diff.
GTX 1050 Ti	1080p Ultra	58.2 FPS	≈53 FPS	-9%
GTX 1050	1080p Ultra	44.9 FPS	≈44 FPS	-2%
Radeon Vega 8	1080p High	21 FPS	≈21 FPS	0%
Radeon Vega 8	1080p Ultra	16 FPS	≈17 FPS	+6%
Intel UHD Graphics 620	1080p High	11.3 FPS	≈15 FPS	+33%

Our estimate on 10 reference GPUs

Estimate ±30%

Model figures, not measurements: dashed bars with their ±30% band. How they are made.

RTX 4090100game cap
RTX 5070 Ti100game cap
Radeon RX 9070 XT100game cap
RTX 4070100game cap
Radeon RX 7800 XT100game cap
RTX 4060 Ti100game cap
RTX 4060100game cap
RTX 3060100game cap
Radeon RX 6600100game cap
GTX 16507855–101

Cards that run Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor at 60+ FPS

1080p High · cheapest first

Current cards, by launch price. Solid chips are measured results; dashed ones are our estimate (±30%).

Intel Arc B580launch price $249≈100 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈100 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈100 FPSAmazon

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Player reports

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No player reports for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor yet.

Screenshots

Steam

System requirements

Steam

Minimum

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 | AMD Radeon HD 5850
CPU: Intel Core i5-750, 2.67 GHz | AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.4 GHz
RAM: 3 GB