• Nvidia’s Reflex 2 reveal packed a nugget of information concerning the RTX 5090
• Crew Inexperienced shared that the flagship GPU can run Valorant at 800+ fps
• The graphics card does this with an enter lag of below 3ms, too

Amongst Nvidia’s cluster of CES 2025 revelations, together with new RTX 5000 graphics playing cards, there have been a number of nuggets that hugged the GPU floor, flying below the proverbial radar. A type of was neural texture compression which we mentioned earlier (it sounds excellent), and one other was a fast footnote from Crew Inexperienced within the unveiling of Reflex 2 – and it exhibits simply how briskly the RTX 5090 is in Valorant, a well-liked esports shooter.

Truly, you might need missed the reveal of Reflex 2 itself, which is the sequel to the unique Nvidia Reflex tech that’s designed to scale back enter lag (mitigating the lag that DLSS Body Era, and now DLSS 4’s Multi Body Era, hits the gamer with).

Nvidia explored Reflex 2 at size in a weblog publish, the gist of which is that it now presents an as much as 75% discount in latency (in comparison with 50% on common for the predecessor know-how). It does this by augmenting the low latency mode with a brand new ‘body warp’ characteristic.

TweakTown seen that later on this publish, Nvidia brings up a few examples of the latency discount achieved with Reflex 2, and one of many video games highlighted is Valorant.

Right here’s what Nvidia tells us: “In Riot Video games’ Valorant, a CPU-bottlenecked sport that runs blazingly quick, at 800+ fps on the brand new GeForce RTX 5090, PC latency averages below 3ms utilizing Reflex 2 Body Warp – one of many lowest latency figures we’ve measured in a first-person shooter.”

So, in a top-end gaming PC (presumably) with an RTX 5090, the graphics card pushes Valorant over 800 frames per second, and does so with an enter latency of below 3ms, which is super-speedy.

Evaluation: How excessive do it’s worthwhile to go?

Isn’t 800 fps a loopy determine? Properly, yeah, it’s. That’s partly as a result of Valorant is an undemanding sport designed for esports and silky body charges, which even a rusty previous PC could make an honest fist of working. Additionally, super-high body charges are typically solely chased by professional avid gamers keen to fork out for a ludicrously costly gaming PC anyway (the RTX 5090 actually comes laden with an appropriately weighty price ticket).

Certainly, 800 fps far exceeds even the greatest gaming monitor’s refresh price amongst present fashions – and even outdoes the ridiculous still-to-be-released 750Hz mannequin (Koorui G7) that popped up at CES 2025.

Nevertheless, when Nvidia says Valorant exceeds 800 fps, that’s a peak body price, not a median – and sometimes will probably be under the typical (by definition). So, it’s not fairly as foolish because it sounds (however even a peak of 800 fps remains to be, naturally sufficient, huge overkill for most people).

Curiously, PC avid gamers have already proven off Valorant working at jaw-dropping body charges up to now – really 1,000 fps plus, in spikes – however that’s on The Vary (observe map), and we’re assuming Nvidia’s testing was totally in-game right here. Moreover, seemingly a more moderen replace has made it harder to acquire excessive fps in Valorant, too (for some gamers, at the least so far as we are able to inform from reviews).

At any price, what you really want for the last word in smoothness is for any given sport to by no means drop under an absolute low body price of the utmost velocity in Hertz of your excessive refresh price monitor, in an excellent state of affairs. Once more, although, that is pipe dream stuff for all however the wealthiest PC lovers on the market.

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