Valorant latency : Hardware accelerated gpu & game mode : on vs off

Posted by Steve

Tuesday, January 4, 2022 9:38 PM

Hello all, this is just a quick test to see if any improvement is noticeable while running Valorant.
For all of the tests I went with the same graphic settings:
TL;DR: It helps performance by a bit*

low graphics

Now let's see if GPU acceleration and game mode affects the game performance.
(These are settings you can find on your w10 OS, not sure if w11 has this function).

Practice no bots

GPU off & Game Mode off

GPU On & Game Mode On

Practice with bots

GPU off & Game Mode off

GPU On & Game Mode On

Deathmatch (breeze)

GPU off & Game Mode off

GPU On & Game Mode On

My conclusion: We can see some improvement here and there, in some cases the render latency is doubled without the GPU and GM activated, from 0.3 ms to 0.6 ms. (DM)
In the practice room with and without bots we can see almost no difference.

Is this noticeable in game? I'm not an expert, I would like to see some experienced players comment on this and hopefully give some feedback on whether we should enable or disable.

Note: On the FPS I would like to ignore the results cause they are very volatile , this test was not conducted to check FPS performance however we can see a little bit of a boost.

Let me know your thoughts.
Good day

Specs:
Ryzen 5600x , 3070 , 16 RAM 2400mhz, ssd, W10.
Disclaimer: Tests are not absolute, yours might differ from the ones I ran.