{"id":248948,"date":"2026-05-18T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/new-low_latency_layer-brings-reflex-and-anti-lag-2-to-amd-and-intel-gpus-on-linux\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:50:21","slug":"new-low_latency_layer-brings-reflex-and-anti-lag-2-to-amd-and-intel-gpus-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/new-low_latency_layer-brings-reflex-and-anti-lag-2-to-amd-and-intel-gpus-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"New &#8220;low_latency_layer&#8221; brings Reflex and Anti-Lag 2 to AMD and Intel GPUs on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/05\/new-low-latency-layer-brings-reflex-and-anti-lag-2-to-amd-and-intel-gpus-on-linux\/\">New &#8220;low_latency_layer&#8221; brings Reflex and Anti-Lag 2 to AMD and Intel GPUs on Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/05\/new-low-latency-layer-brings-reflex-and-anti-lag-2-to-amd-and-intel-gpus-on-linux\/\">https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/05\/new-low-latency-layer-brings-reflex-and-anti-lag-2-to-amd-and-intel-gpus-on-linux\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 04:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamingonlinux.com\">www.gamingonlinux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linux gets expanded support for Reflex and Anti-Lag tech thanks to a new open source Vulkan layer called &#8220;low_latency_layer&#8221;. A first initial release is out now for anyone who wants to try it so you can fully enable the likes of AMD Anti-Lag 2 and NVIDIA Reflex 2 across many different games both Native and Windows via Proton.<\/p>\n<p>From the GitHub page:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">A C++23 implicit Vulkan layer that reduces click-to-photon latency by implementing both AMD and NVIDIA&#8217;s latency reduction technologies.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">By providing hardware-agnostic implementations of the VK_NV_low_latency2 and VK_AMD_anti_lag device extensions, this layer brings Reflex and Anti-Lag capabilities to AMD and Intel GPUs. When paired with dxvk-nvapi to forward the relevant calls, it bypasses the need for official driver-level support.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The layer also eliminates a hardware support disparity as considerably more applications support NVIDIA&#8217;s Reflex than AMD&#8217;s Anti-Lag.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Going by their own benchmarks, the developer said they &#8220;suggest the layer performs as well as or better than the proprietary Windows implementations on the same hardware&#8221; which is extremely impressive &#8211; and goes to show again the power of open source:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Developer comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unlike THE FINALS, where results were comparable, both technology implementations clearly beat the native Windows numbers in absolute terms.<\/li>\n<li>Reflex and Anti-Lag 2 again perform identically, consistent with our previous findings.<\/li>\n<li>CS2&#8217;s -vulkan backend was also tested on Windows. It regresses baseline latency relative to the default backend, and AMD&#8217;s Anti-Lag 2 does not recover this &#8211; it remains slower than Anti-Lag 2 on the default backend.<\/li>\n<li>Mesa&#8217;s Anti-Lag Vulkan layer again appears to be a no-op, matching our findings from THE FINALS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uploads.golmedia.net\/uploads\/articles\/article_media\/20011218751779091987gol2.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Developer comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We included comparisons against AMD&#8217;s proprietary DX12 implementation of Anti-Lag 2 on Windows. The results suggest latency matches or beats native Windows numbers.<\/li>\n<li>We can directly compare our implementation&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/05\/new-low-latency-layer-brings-reflex-and-anti-lag-2-to-amd-and-intel-gpus-on-linux\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New &#8220;low_latency_layer&#8221; brings Reflex and Anti-Lag 2 to AMD and Intel GPUs on Linux https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/05\/new-low-latency-layer-brings-reflex-and-anti-lag-2-to-amd-and-intel-gpus-on-linux\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/articles\/tagline_images\/880112893id29036gol.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-248948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248950,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248948\/revisions\/248950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}