Shadow Of War & Project CARS 2
Middle-earth: Shadow Of War
Not all games respond to increased host processing resources; some of them are wholly limited by available graphics horsepower. Middle-earth: Shadow of War is definitely one of those graphics-bound titles, demonstrating a 4.5 FPS average variance from the slowest sample in our pool to the fastest. As a result, it was no surprise to see Core i7-8086K and -8700K tied.
Project CARS 2
Project CARS 2 is purportedly optimized for threading. However, our 6C/6T Core i5-8600K beat the overclocked 8C/16T Ryzen 7 2700X, so it's clear that parallelism isn't the most influential factor in defining this game's performance.
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