Sponsored: Get the most out of Counter-Strike 2 with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series Cards and NVIDIA Reflex
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In Counter-Strike 2, a smooth and responsive in-game experience is everything. Casual players and the game's top esports pros alike have all felt the agonizing experience of losing a key clutch due to high latency or a low frame rate on a PC that isn't suitable for Valve's latest addition to the Counter-Strike series.
For players looking to get the best performance in Counter-Strike 2, a combination of a modern CPU, a powerful graphics card, and the right tools is the key to a great gaming experience.
For that, NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 50 Series is a fantastic upgrade option for gamers looking to upgrade their setups or build new PCs, especially when paired with NVIDIA's industry-leading NVIDIA Reflex anti-latency technology.
With NVIDIA Reflex, a GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU gets the best of both worlds with high framerates and an optimized rendering pipeline for low click-to-photon latency. In layman's terms this means that when you're playing with NVIDIA nothing gets in the way of your performance in Counter-Strike 2 or any esports and AAA titles.
On two popular benchmarks for Counter-Strike 2, a PC powered by a ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5080 shows impressive results:
With an NVIDIA 5080 powering the system, our modern gaming PC crushes the benchmark with an average FPS of 686.6 on Dust II and an average FPS of 564.5 on Ancient. Per the testing, you can also see that when we enable NVIDIA Reflex the overall performance change is negligible (within 0.5% and 1%, meaning there is no tradeoff between low latency and high framerates when using NVIDIA Reflex.
As such, NVIDIA recommends gamers leave on NVIDIA Reflex for the best of both worlds when using their GeForce RTX 50 Series.
In another test, where NVIDIA has upgraded an identical system from their previous generation 4060 to their new 5070, the performance uplift is equally impressive, with FPS gains of more than 70%:
From this second test, when our test PC receives one of the latest 50 Series card, we see a 70% FPS uplift in both testing with Reflex on and Reflex + Boost enabled. This once again demonstrates the tight integration of NVIDIA's Reflex technology with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 Series cards.
Overall, NVIDIA's 50 Series Cards are a fantastic choice for CS2 or any of your favorite AAA titles.
