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The very bad news is, Nvidia says turning DLSS 5 on will currently reduce performance by 50-60%. And that's across the board—no matter the game.

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[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The article goes into this.

Looking at the basic performance charts Nvidia has provided us so far, the ultra-high frame rate figures are based on 6x Multi Frame Generation. So, while the little RTX 5060 can churn out a 258 fps result in NBA 2K27 at 1080p Ultra settings with ray tracing and DLSS 5 enabled, the game underneath will actually be running at around 43 fps.

258 / 43 = 6

I haven't looked at the raw numbers, but if the A.I. is reducing performance by 60%, you can do some basic math and estimate that your game would have 110FPS normally. So the A.I. technically comes out ahead by a lot of frames. But, are those frames actually valuable? 60fps is enough for me personality, and 120fps is more than enough for almost everybody, so anything more than 120 is basically fluff.

Also I don't really want to play a game where 5/6 of frames are "fake". Imagine just walking along in Elden Ring and you glitch through a wall, but the wall never existed, it was hallucinated by the A.I. based on surrounding geometry, and then you get hit by a random fireball the A.I. accidentally left out. I would be pissed. I can't even imagine all the strange visual artefacts and glitches the A.I. would introduce. Like your character gaining and losing fingers in The Sims multiple times per second.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not even just 1/6 frame, because there is upscaling with Ai before, plus the upscaled image is probably changed a bit with the new DLSS 5 imagery. So the one full frame isn't even a full frame.

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What's the upscaling with A.I. "before" that you're talking about?

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

DLSS can upscale the image. Lets say from 1080p to 4k, with Ai. Then the DLSS 5 cosmetics are added, these new ones we see in the screenshots. That's also Ai. And at last 6x Frame Generation with 5 generated images in between real images, with Ai.

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 2 points 9 hours ago

Oh yeah that thing that makes my eyes bleed. I always turn off such "render resolution" BS in settings. Full scale native please.