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How to run the Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

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If you’ve just acquired a new game and you’re not sure what settings or resolution your PC can run it at without stutter and lag, a benchmark is a good way to try out various profiles before you dive in. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is one title with a built-in benchmark that’s easy to run.

This benchmark is also a very common test that reviewers run on laptops to put their GPUs to the test. _Shadow of the Tomb Raider_has ray tracing, so it’s a particularly good way to see how well a gaming rig can handle ray tracing. If you want to see how your GPU stacks up to other systems around the internet, the _Tomb Raider_benchmark is one of the best ways to do that.

Here’s how to run it.

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