Latency. It’s the invisible pain point of gamers around the world. Especially in the past few years, gaming has been about the lowest latency possible, as marketing ploys promising you’ll be a better ...

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What is latency? In a word, it means delay. Why is latency important? That’s a much longer—and, for streaming, a much more costly—answer. Because, when it comes to streaming, latency sucks. To put ...

After years of discussion about what 5G will bring for businesses and consumers, it is finally becoming a reality. Mobile carriers are beginning to roll out their 5G networks as they attempt to be the ...

The advances in digital distribution have changed the game industry in the same dramatic way they changed music, video, newspaper, and book publishing. In fact, Newzoo projects the global video game ...

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In general terms latency is a measure of the delay that occurs between the start of a transaction and its completion. In gaming for example, latency is the delay between clicking a mouse button, and ...

Nvidia's Reflex aims to improve competitive gaming by taking a hard(ware) look at latency. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...