{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "date": "2026-10-21",
  "path": "/benchmarks/cs2-nvidia-texture-quality",
  "title": "CS2: NVIDIA Texture Quality vs High Performance",
  "description": "NVIDIA texture filtering Quality versus High performance: eight measured CS2 tests, paired frame timings and downloadable results.",
  "verdict": "No clear performance advantage in this test",
  "conclusion": "High performance recorded a 0.23% lower median average FPS, a 1.69% lower 1% low and a 0.11% lower p99 frame time. All three metrics had overlapping ranges and mixed paired directions. None met the declared decision rule. Image quality was not evaluated.",
  "fixedSetting": "Low Latency Mode = Off",
  "labels": [
    "Quality",
    "High performance"
  ],
  "setup": {
    "CPU": "AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D",
    "GPU": "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060",
    "Driver": "32.0.16.1742",
    "OS": "Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26300",
    "CS2 build": "25966348",
    "Scene": "FPSHeaven Ancient · workshop 3472126051",
    "Display": "1440 × 1080 · 144 Hz · fullscreen",
    "Graphics": "4× MSAA · NVIDIA Reflex disabled",
    "Windows": "High performance power plan · Game Mode on",
    "Capture": "PresentMon 2.6.0 · fixed60-offset10-v1"
  },
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      "advantage": "none"
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      "advantage": "none"
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      "advantage": "none"
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  "limitations": [
    "One PC, one CS2 build, one synthetic scene and four measured repeats per setting; results do not predict every match or system.",
    "No valid input-latency samples were captured. Missing latency is not zero milliseconds.",
    "Fullscreen is the configured mode; independent-flip presentation does not establish exclusive fullscreen.",
    "Steam Performance Monitor was off. Non-windowed OS-managed Game Bar hosts were allowed; this is not a zero-background-process claim.",
    "No outlier removal or automatic retry was used in this completed series.",
    "The 2% decision threshold is an operational rule, not a statistical confidence interval."
  ]
}