NVIDIA Reflex 2 game latency reduction will only work on RTX 50 and will be available on previous graphics cards later

NVIDIA Reflex 2, a technology that reduces input lag in games, will initially only be available on RTX 50. NVIDIA didn’t mention this in the presentation, but it is mentioned in the document.

According to the Reflex Frame Warp section of NVIDIA’s FAQ, the technology will only be supported by Blackwell video cards at startup, on desktops and laptops with a new NVIDIA driver 570+. NVIDIA confirms that Reflex 2 will be available on previous RTX graphics cards, but only in future updates.

NVIDIA Reflex 2 is a new version of the Reflex feature that updates the frame based on mouse input. The first version of Reflex allows the CPU to create frames only when the GPU is ready to process them.

Usually frames are accumulated for processing by the GPU in resource-intensive games. Reflex reduces the latency of their output by simplifying the pipeline, but Frame Warp in Reflex 2 works by sending a frame from the CPU, taking into account mouse movements. Then Reflex 2 transforms the frame from the CPU into a frame processed by the video card, taking into account the updated camera position. And with the help of the Inpainting method, the technology predicts the final frame without a long delay.

NVIDIA claims that Reflex 2 is nearly twice as fast to inject and reduces latency by up to 75% compared to pipeline operation. In theory, Reflex 2 should work on previous RTX graphics cards, but it requires NVIDIA to enable support.

Source: Wccftech