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rames win games,” Nvidia likes to
say, but there’s more to esports
domination than raw frame rates.
How those frames get delivered
matters too. Latency—the time it takes for an
on-screen action to happen after you press a
button—reigns supreme in the blink-and-
you’re-dead competitive esports scene. If
your game looks beautiful but feels sluggish,you’ll find yourself outgunned by rivals
playing with crummy visual settings to
increase responsiveness.
Enter Nvidia Reflex, introduced alongside
the GeForce RTX 3080 (go.pcworld.com/
r308) and RTX 3090 (go.pcworld.com/r309).
If you’ve heard of it before, you probably
associate it with low-latency features being
added to games like Call of Duty: Warzone,IMAGE: MICROSOFTTested: How Nvidia Reflex can
make you a better esports gamer
Lower latency, faster kills. Here’s everything you need to know about Nvidia Reflex, and
whether more powerful GPUs and faster monitors are worth the money. BY BRAD CHACOS