Riot Games upgraded VALORANT to Unreal Engine 5.3, delivering improved performance over the previous version. MxBenchmarkPC released comparison footage demonstrating higher framerates on RTX 4070 hardware when running the updated engine. The visual differences remain minimal between versions, matching developer expectations for this competitive shooter. Resource consumption increased across CPU, RAM, and VRAM metrics, potentially affecting lower-specification systems. No widespread performance problems have emerged on budget hardware configurations.
Unreal Engine 5 typically suffers from stuttering problems that plague many titles using this technology. VALORANT defies this trend by running without the characteristic frame drops...