PC World - USA (2021-02)

FEBRUARY 2021 PCWorld 89

situations where your graphics card is
stressed. That’s huge for casual esports
gamers. Nvidia Reflex can let you bump up
visual details while keeping your games
responsive. That’s an all-around win for your
gaming experience. Better yet, activating
Reflex never really hurts responsiveness.
There’s no reason not to turn it on. This is a
fantastic technology that can give you a real
edge over your competition, as studies have
shown that player accuracy and kill-to-death
rates improve as latency goes down.
I suspect Reflex would be even more
beneficial at 1440p and 4K resolutions, but the
panel we used for testing is a 1080p display,
and we need its analyzing tools to measure
latency metrics. (We’d love to see 1440p,

144Hz monitors with Reflex Latency Analyzer

inside.) Definitely try it though; since they’ve

integrated the Reflex API, both Fortnite and

Valorant now include an option to show some

latency metrics onscreen in the game itself.

You can use those to see if turning Reflex on

makes a difference on your system even if you

don’t have a 360Hz G-Sync Esports display,

and to be honest, you’ll probably feel it if

Reflex drops latency significantly. It’s very

noticeable in the Fortnite scenarios that show

the biggest improvements.

Speaking of those 360Hz G-Sync Esports

monitors, they’re also very useful, but aiming

for a very different crowd—very competitive

and deep-pocketed esports fanatics. Asus

hasn’t announced pricing for the luxurious

You can see Valorant’s native latency monitoring graphs underneath the RLA overlay in this screenshot.