Valorant players on AMD hardware finally have a proper in-game latency option to play with. Riot’s shooter now supports AMD Anti-Lag 2, giving Radeon users something closer to Nvidia Reflex for reducing input delay.
But before everyone with a red-team GPU starts celebrating, the early takeaway is simple: this feature might be more useful for mid-range and lower-end PCs than monster gaming rigs.
What AMD Anti-Lag 2 does in Valorant
Anti-Lag 2 is AMD’s latency-reduction tech for supported Radeon GPUs. In Valorant, it is available for AMD RDNA GPUs, meaning Radeon RX 6000-series cards and newer should be covered.
The feature actually arrived through Valorant’s 12.09 patch notes, but there is one important detail: it is not automatically switched on. If you have been playing the past week and assumed it was already active, probably not, bro.
To enable it, head into Valorant’s main Graphics settings page and look near the bottom for the toggle.
For a competitive shooter like Valorant, even tiny latency improvements can matter. In theory, lower input delay means your click reaches the screen faster, which is exactly the kind of thing sweaty ranked players care about, especially if you are grinding Premier or playing on high refresh-rate monitors.
The tested gains look small on a high-end AMD setup
PC Gamer tested the feature using Nvidia’s Latency and Display Analysis Tool, which measures the delay between a mouse click and the gun muzzle flash appearing in-game. Each test used more than 150 clicks before averaging the result.
On the test machine, the improvement from turning Anti-Lag 2 on was not dramatic. The system used was already very fast: an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT paired with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D. That kind of setup is way above what most Malaysian cybercafes, student setups, or budget home rigs are running.
Interestingly, enabling AMD Anti-Lag in the driver together with Anti-Lag 2 in Valorant produced a slightly higher latency result of 10.03 ms. It is not clear whether the driver-level feature overrides the in-game setting, stacks badly, or whether the difference is just normal testing variation.
Either way, the message is clear: if your PC is already pushing Valorant at extremely high frame rates, Anti-Lag 2 may not feel like a night-and-day upgrade.
Why Malaysian and SEA players should still care
Here is where it gets more relevant for us. Valorant is still huge across Malaysia and SEA, from university squads to cybercafe five-stacks to amateur tournaments. Not everyone is playing on a high-end X3D CPU and expensive Radeon GPU.
If you are on a more modest AMD build, Anti-Lag 2 may be worth testing because weaker PCs have more latency bottlenecks in the full input-to-display chain. Basically, if your system is not already crazy fast, there is more room for this tech to help.
There is a trade-off, though. Anti-Lag 2 can slightly affect frame rate. In PC Gamer’s practice range testing, average FPS barely moved, but 1% lows dropped from 565 fps to 489 fps. That is still ridiculously high, but the point matters: smoother lows are important in competitive games.
For most players, the best move is simple. Turn it on, play a few Deathmatches or ranked games, and see whether aim response feels better or if frame pacing feels worse. Valorant makes the setting easy to toggle, so there is no need to overthink it.
If you are on a high-end AMD rig, jangan expect magic. If you are on a lower-end Radeon setup, this could be a free tweak worth trying before blaming your mouse, monitor, or ISP again.
Source: PC Gamer