NVIDIA REFLEX Seth Schneider | Senior Product Manager ESPORTS IS THE NEW SPORTS
500M 100M 1.3M 75% Esports Viewers League of Legends Worlds NASCAR iRacing GeForce Gamers Worldwide Viewers Viewers Play Esports A SPORT OF MILLISECONDS
Average Gamer Reaction Time – 150ms A SPORT OF MILLISECONDSCompetitive Gamer Reaction Time – 120ms 180 ms Target Window TYPICAL GAMER
Reaction Time = 150ms System Latency = 45ms Miss!
ESPORTS GAMER
Reaction Time = 120ms System Latency = 12ms Hit!
THE PAINS OF LATENCY
HIT REGISTRATION PEEKER’S ADVANTAGE FLICK SHOT ACCURACY HIT REGISTRATION HIT REGISTRATION PEEKER’S ADVANTAGE PEEKER’S ADVANTAGE PEEKER’S ADVANTAGE AIM ACCURACY AIM ACCURACY AIM ACCURACY AIM ACCURACY NVIDIA ESPORTS RESEARCH
Latency Impacts Aiming 50%
40% 37% 33% 30% 28%
20%
10% %Improvement Aiming 0% 100ms 54.7ms 34.5ms 20ms 60 FPS | Hz 120 FPS | Hz 240 FPS | Hz 360 FPS | Hz
Small Differences Add Up
20ms 1.53 System Latency
12ms 1.35 System Latency
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 Task Completion Time (Time to Kill, Seconds)
Sources: NVIDIA Research, https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2019-11_Latency-of-30, https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/aiming-faster-in-games-with-low-computer-system-latency/ NVIDIA REFLEX Low Latency Esports Technology SYSTEM LATENCY PIPELINE
INPUT CPU RENDER QUEUE GPU DISPLAY SYSTEM LATENCY TERMINOLOGY
INPUT CPU RENDER QUEUE GPU DISPLAY
Game Latency Render Latency
Peripheral Latency PC Latency Display Latency
System Latency NVIDIA REFLEX LOW LATENCY TECHNOLOGY
INPUT CPU RENDER QUEUE GPU DISPLAY
Reduced CPU Zeros Render Boosts GPU Backpressure Queue Clocks NVIDIA REFLEX IMPROVES PC RESPONSE TIME
30 30 24
47 44 42
53 51 35
75 74 50
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 System Latency (ms) --- Lower is Better
Reflex OFF NULL ON Reflex ON
System latency measured at 1080p60 on GTX 1660 SUPER, Max Settings, i9 CPU TODAY GRAPHICS INTENSIVE SETTINGS MEANS HIGH LATENCY
Time
GPU Bound Mouse CPU Back Pressure Render Queue GPU Display High Settings GAMERS REDUCE SETTINGS FOR BETTER RESPONSIVENESS
Time
GPU Bound Mouse CPU Back Pressure Render Queue GPU Display High Settings
CPU Bound Low Settings Mouse CPU GPU Display NVIDIA REFLEX OFFERS LOW LATENCY AT HIGH SETTINGS
Time
GPU Bound Mouse CPU Back Pressure Render Queue GPU Display High Settings
CPU Bound Low Settings Mouse CPU GPU Display
GPU Bound High Settings Mouse CPU GPU Display REFLEX ON UPGRADE RESOLUTION WITHOUT ADDING LATENCY
49 2160p 31
30 1440p 23
23 1080p 21
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 System Latency (ms) --- Lower is Better
Reflex OFF Reflex ON
System latency measured at 144Hz on RTX 3080, Max Settings, i9 CPU NEW NVIDIA G-SYNC ESPORTS DISPLAYS
360Hz IPS Dual-driver panel
NVIDIA Reflex Latency Analyzer
G-SYNC Esports Mode
240Hz ULMB
THE PATH TO ESPORTS GRADE LATENCY RTX 30 Series GPUs and 360Hz G-SYNC
47 42 27 19
75 50 39 31
53 35 26 19
30 24 20 12
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 System Latency (ms) --- Lower is Better
GTX 1660 Super, 60Hz +Reflex ON +RTX 3080 +360Hz
System latency measured at 1080p, Max Settings, i9 CPU TODAY’S MEASUREMENT SOLUTION 1000+ FPS Camera and Hand-wired Mouse WORLD’S FIRST INTEGRATED LATENCY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM NVIDIA REFLEX SUPPORTED BY TOP ESPORTS DISPLAYS AND MICE
ROG Chakram Core Logitech G Pro Wireless Razer DeathAdder v2 SteelSeries Rival 3 GEFORCE EXPERIENCE PERFORMANCE TOOL
Performance Performance Overlay Monitoring
One Click Automatic Tuning
Tuning Parameters
NVIDIA REVIEWER TOOLKIT FOR GPU PERFORMANCE Simple, Cross-vendor Reviewer Tools For Total Performance Measurement
LATENCY & DISPLAY ANALYSIS TOOL (LDAT) POWER CAPTURE ANALYSIS TOOL (PCAT) FRAMEVIEW 1.1 Standalone system latency tester Accurate perf per watt and Integrated frame benchmarking and designed for reviewers total board power power measurement software NVIDIA REFLEX
NVIDIA REFLEX LOW LATENCY NVIDIA G-SYNC 360HZ WITH GEFORCE EXPERIENCE TECHNOLOGY REFLEX LATENCY ANALYZER PERFORMANCE TOOL