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 associated with Epic's latest engine. Software Engineer Ari Arnbjörnsson addressed these widespread issues during his presentation at Unreal Fest 2025. His talk examined stuttering causes while offering developers practical solutions for performance optimization. WUCHANG demonstrates typical UE5 performance challenges, requiring Frame Generation on RTX 4080 graphics cards to achieve sixty frames per second at 4K resolution.
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 associated with Epic's latest engine. Software Engineer Ari Arnbjörnsson addressed these widespread issues during his presentation at Unreal Fest 2025. His talk examined stuttering causes while offering developers practical solutions for performance optimization. WUCHANG demonstrates typical UE5 performance challenges, requiring Frame Generation on RTX 4080 graphics cards to achieve sixty frames per second at 4K resolution.
