Nvidia's new DLSS 5 Brings Photo-Realistic Lighting To RTX 50-Series
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A massive technological leap for graphics - and we've been hands-on with four games.

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I’m completely speechless. This looks so terrible I thought it was a joke, but apparently Nvidia released these demos to impress people. DLSS 5 runs the entire game through an AI filter, making every character look like it’s running through an ultra realistic beauty filter.

The photo above is used as the promo image for the official blog post by the way. It completely ignores artistic intent and makes Grace’s face look “sexier” because apparently that’s what realism looks like now.

I wouldn’t be so baffled if this was some experimental setting they were testing, but they’re advertising this as the next gen DLSS. As in, this is their image of what the future of gaming should be. A massive F U to every artist in the industry. Well done, Nvidia.

  • Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zipEnglish
    223·
    10 hours ago

    Context is important. The following sentence is:

    The use of two GPUs is required right now as DLSS 5 still has a long way to go in terms of optimisation - both in terms of performance and its VRAM footprint. However, DLSS 5 is designed for use on a single GPU and that’s how it will ship later this year. Quite how scalable it is also remains to be seen, but in common with other DLSS technologies, Nvidia tells us that the computational cost scales with resolution.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      32 minutes ago

      But still the idea of DLSS was to claw back performance lost to raytracing, right? This is the exact opposite of that, it costs performance to sloppify the game. I just pray it’s gonna be an optional feature in games and I can still use DLSS 4 instead.

    • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      10 hours ago

      Sure just double the vram and your AI can run, unfortunately you can’t afford that vram because billionaires are running AI.

      • zurohki@aussie.zoneEnglish
        12·
        7 hours ago

        It’s always funny to me when Nvidia releases new 8GB cards and new VRAM-heavy features as a reason to buy them.

        • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 hours ago

          8gig isn’t even enough for 4k right now. There’s a guy that took his 3070 up to 16gig and it really shows the cards are ram limited. And also it’s a serious pita to change vram without melting the card.