How high do you want your frame rates? Nvidia claims the RTX 5090 GPU can drive Valorant at over 800 fps with stunningly low latency
- Nvidia’s Reflex 2 reveal included a bit of information about the RTX 5090
- Team Green said that the flagship GPU can work Valorant at 800+ fps
- The graphics card also does this with an input delay of less than 3 ms
Among Nvidia’s cluster of CES 2025 reveals, which included new RTX 5000 graphics cards, there were several nuggets that hugged the GPU ground and flew under the proverbial radar. One was neural texture compression that we discussed earlier (it sounds fantastic), and another was a quick footnote from Team Green at the Reflex 2 reveal – and it shows just how fast the RTX 5090 is Valoranta popular esports shooter.
In fact, you may have missed the reveal of Reflex 2 itself, the follow-up to the original Nvidia Reflex technology designed to reduce input lag (mitigating the lag that DLSS Frame Generation, and now DLSS 4’s Multi Frame Generation, affects)).
Nvidia has extensively researched Reflex 2 in one blog postthe essence of which is that it now offers a reduction in latency of up to 75% (compared to an average of 50% for the previous technology). This is done by expanding the low latency mode with a new ‘frame warp’ feature.
TweakTown noted that Nvidia brings up a few examples of the latency reduction achieved with Reflex 2 later in this post, and one of the games highlighted is Valorant.
Here’s what Nvidia tells us: “In Riot Games’ Valoranta CPU bottlenecked game that runs lightning fast, at over 800fps on the new GeForce RTX 5090, PC latency averages less than 3ms using Reflex 2 Frame Warp – one of the lowest latency figures we have measured in a first-person shooter. ”
So in a top-end gaming PC (presumably) with an RTX 5090, the graphics card pushes Valorant more than 800 frames per second, and this with an input latency of less than 3 ms, which is super fast.
Analysis: How high should you go?
Isn’t 800 fps a crazy number? Well, it is. That’s partly because Valorant is an undemanding game designed for esports and silky smooth frame rates, which even a rusty old PC can pack a punch. Furthermore, super-high frame rates are generally only chased by professional gamers who are willing to opt for a ridiculously expensive gaming PC anyway (the RTX 5090 certainly comes loaded with a pretty hefty price tag).
In fact, 800fps far exceeds the refresh rate of even the best gaming monitors among existing models – even surpassing the ridiculous, yet-to-be-released 750Hz model (Koorui G7) that showed up at CES 2025.
However, when Nvidia says Valorant is above 800 fps, that’s a peak frame rate, not an average – and often it will (by definition) be below average. So it’s not as crazy as it sounds (but even a peak of 800 fps is of course still a huge overkill for most people).
Interestingly, PC gamers have already shown off Valorant In the past it ran at stunning frame rates – actually over 1,000fps, in peaks – but that’s on The Range (practice card), and we’re assuming Nvidia’s testing here was entirely in-game. Additionally, a seemingly more recent update has made it harder to get high fps Valoranttoo (for some players, at least as far as we can tell from reports).
In any case, what you really need for ultimate fluidity is that in an ideal situation a given game never falls below the absolute low frame rate of the maximum speed in Hertz of your high refresh rate monitor. But then again, this is dream stuff for all but the richest PC enthusiasts out there.