NVIDIA Reflex is a tool designed to reduce game latency and provide analysis to help improve gaming performance, especially in fast-paced competitive shooters like Overwatch 2 and Apex Legends. While FPS (frames per second) measures the rate at which your computer displays information, latency measures how quickly your actions, such as key presses and mouse movements, are communicated to your computer and reflected in the game.
When you run NVIDIA Reflex on compatible games, it dynamically adjusts your system to reduce latency. Acting as a bridge between your processor and graphics card, it helps synchronize these components, particularly in intensive scenes where the GPU may struggle to produce frames. By communicating with the game engine to calculate frames at the last moment, NVIDIA Reflex significantly reduces the delay between in-game action and what is displayed on your screen. This gives you a more accurate representation of the game state, providing a competitive edge in gameplay.