Originally posted by Jun1nxx
Hey, i know im pretty late to the topic but could i ask you some questions?
I did a lot of tests with the 2 PCs i have here and couldnt come to a conclusion, found this topic and saw that a riot dev was answering stuff and tought: why not ask?
• Is valorant more CPU intensive or gpu intensive?
Also, why is there such a small difference in performance when comparing high resolutions with low resolutions? say 1920 vs 1280 both are 16:9 resolutions but in my tests the fps difference is barely noticeable.
Not that im complaining, its good to have good performance on 1920*1080 but i feel that low resolutions should give more fps compared to full hd.
"Is valorant more CPU intensive or gpu intensive?"
I would think about it like this:
If you go out and buy a brand new top-end GPU/CPU today. Your CPU is going to be the limiting factor. We'll probably only use 30-50% of the GPU.
If you have a mid-range computer that you bought 4 years ago. You're probably close to balanced.
If you have a mid-range computer 4+years ago you're probably going to be GPU limited.
We expect that about 50% of players will be CPU bound (higher-end machines) and 50% of players will be GPU bound (lower-end machines).
However, this changes as we make specific optimizations for CPU or GPU.