- Nvidia Reflex 2 reveal includes a lot of information about the RTX 5090
- Team Green shared that the flagship GPU can work valorant at more than 800 fps
- The graphics card also does this with an input lag of less than 3 ms.
Among the bevy of Nvidia reveals at CES 2025, including the new RTX 5000 graphics cards, there were several nuggets that hugged the GPU floor, flying under the proverbial radar. One of them was the neural texture compression we discussed earlier (sounds great), and another was a quick footnote from Team Green in the Reflex 2 presentation, showing just how fast the RTX 5090 is. valoranta popular esports shooting game.
Actually, you may have missed the reveal of Reflex 2, which is the sequel to the original Nvidia Reflex technology that is designed to reduce input lag (mitigating the lag that DLSS Frame Generation, and now DLSS 4’s Multi Frame Generation , hits the player with ).
Nvidia explored Reflex 2 in detail in a blog post, the gist of which is that it now offers up to 75% latency reduction (compared to 50% on average for the predecessor technology). It does this by boosting low latency mode with a new “frame warp” feature.
TweakTown noted that later in this post, Nvidia mentions a couple of examples of the latency reduction achieved with Reflex 2, and one of the notable games is valorant.
This is what Nvidia tells us: ‘At Riot Games’ valoranta CPU-bottleneck game that runs incredibly fast, at over 800 fps on the new GeForce RTX 5090, PC latency averages less than 3 ms using Reflex 2 Frame Warp, one of the lowest latency figures which we have measured in a first-person shooter game. “
So on a high-end gaming PC (presumably) with an RTX 5090, the graphics card pushes valorant over 800 frames per second and it does so with an input latency of less than 3 ms, which is super fast.
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Analysis: How high do you need to go?
Isn’t 800 fps a crazy number? Well, yes, it is. That’s partly because valorant It’s an undemanding game designed for esports and silky frame rates, which even a rusty old PC can run decently. Plus, super-high frame rates are generally only pursued by professional gamers who are willing to shell out for a ridiculously expensive gaming PC anyway (the RTX 5090 certainly comes loaded with an appropriately hefty price tag).
In fact, 800 fps far surpasses even the refresh rate of the best gaming monitor among existing models, and even beats the ridiculous yet-to-be-released 750 Hz model (Koorui G7) that appeared at CES 2025.
However, when Nvidia says valorant exceeds 800 fps, it is a maximum frame rate, not an average, and will often be below average (by definition). So it’s not as silly as it sounds (but even a peak of 800 fps is still, naturally, a huge overkill for most people).
Curiously, PC gamers have already shown off valorant It’s run at jaw-dropping frame rates in the past (actually over 1000fps, peaking), but that’s on The Range (practice map), and we’re assuming Nvidia’s testing was done entirely in-game here. Also, apparently a more recent update has made it harder to get high fps on valoranttoo (for some players, at least as far as we can tell from the reports).
In any case, what you really need to achieve the ultimate in fluidity is for any game to never drop below an absolutely low frame rate of your high refresh rate monitor’s maximum Hertz rate, in an ideal situation. Once again, however, this is a pipe dream for all but the wealthiest PC enthusiasts.
