Best Rivals settings for RTX 2080
Recommended at 1440p: expect 143–183 FPS after applying the playbook below. Range derived from published benchmark measurements for this game. RTX 2080 pairs cleanly with Rivals — no single component is the wall.
Your RTX 2080 and Rivals are paired well — neither is the runaway bottleneck. The biggest FPS gains come from a balanced cut: drop a couple of expensive effects (shadows, volumetrics) without touching what makes the game look like Rivals.
Apply these settings in Rivals
Ranked by FPS impact for tier B hardware. Apply the high-impact ones first — top three usually account for 60% of the gain.
NVIDIA-specific tweaks
These are in NVIDIA Control Panel + GeForce App.
Single biggest input-latency improvement on NVIDIA. ~10–25 ms reduction depending on title. Always on.
Windows Settings → Display → Graphics. Enables CPU offload for GPU work scheduling. Small but consistent gain.
NVIDIA Control Panel → 3D Settings → set per game. Forces full clocks during play.
How Rivals runs on RTX 2080
Rivals runs on the Unreal Engine 5 engine. At 8GB VRAM, the RTX 2080 handles this engine's rendering pipeline comfortably. The engine's rendering pipeline balances visual quality with performance, making settings optimization meaningful for B-tier hardware.
With a RTX 2080, you have headroom to keep most visual settings at Medium or above. Focus optimization on the 2-3 settings that cost the most FPS (usually shadows and post-processing) rather than dropping everything to Low.
Known quirks for RTX 2080 in Rivals
- •Monitor VRAM usage in-game — 8GB can be tight at Ultra settings
- •Enable NVIDIA Reflex if available for lower input latency
- •Update NVIDIA drivers before optimizing — stale drivers can leave 5-10% FPS on the table
How we rank these settings
BetterFPS ranks each setting by its FPS-per-quality-cost ratio for your GPU tier. We pull from engine documentation, community benchmarks, and driver release notes to estimate each setting's render cost on NVIDIA B-tier hardware at 1440p. High-impact settings are those where disabling or lowering them recovers significant frame time with minimal perceptible quality loss. The personalized optimizer refines these further using your CPU, RAM, and monitor refresh rate.
About the RTX 2080
The RTX 2080 (2018 release, 8GB VRAM) is a upper-mid card. At 1440p in Rivals, the biggest FPS levers are upscaling, shadow detail, and brand-specific latency reducers (NVIDIA Reflex). The settings above are the floor — for a fully personalized playbook factoring CPU, RAM, and your monitor refresh rate, run BetterFPS.
Keep this playbook current
Rivals patches can shift what’s optimal overnight. Lock in auto-updates so you never lose FPS to a patch you didn’t notice.