Nvidia Reflex Beats Radeon Boost: Benchmarks

Both Nvidia and AMD are striving to improve input latencies in video games, thanks to their Nvidia Reflex and Radeon Boost technologies. Both do the same, but dedicated to their own graphics cards, but which one offers the best results?

The YouTuber Battle (non) sense recently published a comprehensive analysis of both technologies and compared the latencies that result.

Test of performance

In the first test, the channel tested a frame rate cap against Nvidia's low latency mode (not Nvidia Reflex). With it, the frame rate limit was imposed on the driver's low latency feature.

With Reflex technology we see slightly better results than the frame rate limit, providing one excellent value. When AMD's Anti-Lag is compared to Nvidia's low latency mode, they are found to have similar performance.

The most interesting of this comparison is the following slides. Nvidia Reflex technology against AMD Radeon Boost. The results are in sight, Reflex easily beats AMD's Boost technology. Both Fornite and APEX, it is discovered that Radeon Boost is not stable, giving some spikes of lag.

One of the conclusions that Battle (non) sense reaches, is that optimizing the 'pipeline' between the CPU and the GPU is the best method to reduce latency instead of just increasing the frame rate.

Finally, it should be noted that Nvidia Reflex is not compatible with all games, so we have to settle for the traditional low latency mode in many titles. On the other hand, AMD will have to work hard on its Radeon Boost technology to achieve results on par with Nvidia Reflex. We will keep you informed.