To help with transparency, we've conducted some benchmarks on VALORANT using Windows 11.
Specifications
CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X3D (SMT disabled)
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X53 AIO
RAM: 16GB 3600Mhz Corsair Vengeance LPX
GPU: MSI 2070 SUPER 8GB
Motherboard: MSI B550 Gaming Carbon Wi-Fi
Storage: WD_BLACK SN750 NVMe
Testing Methodologies
Benchmarking tool: CapframeX
Benchmarks taken three times and aggregated
Setting up each OS
Atlas Configuration
Windows Defender disabled
Manual Driver Installation (NVCleanstall minimal driver 546.01-desktop-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe)
Core Isolation disabled
CPU mitigations enabled
Stock Configuration
Windows Defender real-time protection disabled
Stock driver installations (NVCleanstall minimal driver 546.01-desktop-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe)
The power plan changed to High Performance
NVIDIA Settings for both OSs
Setting up game settings
All video settings low, multi-threading enabled
Exclusive Fullscreen
Nvidia Reflex - On
Beta Raw Input - On
How did we test?
To keep it as identical as possible, the benchmark was taken on the Haven map and walked the same path as the same character, Brimstone. We used Valoplant to add transparency to our tests.
The benchmark results
1% Percentile FPS: 665.3 → 800.7
