Nvidia Reflex promises to deliver a competitive advantage by reducing latency and offering the best responsiveness while playing first-person shooter games.
The first step in ensuring a smooth and lag-free gaming experience is to invest in good gaming hardware, including a capable CPU and a powerful graphics card. It is also a good idea to go for a monitor with a high refresh rate and peripherals that offer a fast polling rate. But whether you have powerful gaming hardware or not, there are ways to improve your response time in games using freely available software, like Nvidia Reflex.
It might even give you a competitive advantage.
During the unveiling of its RTX 30-series GPUs in 2020, Nvidia announced Reflex, a suite of GPU, G-Sync display, and software technologies that help in measuring and reducing system latency. By doing so, it allows the PC and the display to respond faster to mouse and keyboard inputs, essentially allowing you to target and kill enemies faster and with greater precision.
Just like DLSS and RTX, Reflex is a proprietary technology that requires a Nvidia graphics card. While having the latest RTX 30-series GPU ensures the best experience, Reflex can work with any model, including the GTX 900 and above. It works by optimizing the GPU and the game to provide you with the low-latency best performance.
According to Nvidia, Reflex can help lower rendering lag by as much as 80% and works best with first-person shooters like Apex Legends, Valorant, Call of Duty, Fortnite, and others.
