Reading through the comments, this is definitely an unpopular opinion, but while I don't love it, it does look more "realistic" to me, even though it definitely needs to look more like the source material.

This looks so bad, like uncanny 3d porn bad.

Can't believe DF is so positive about this, just looks horrible. I've actually been quite positive about technologies like DLSS and FSR but this... no thanks.

It feels like homogenization of art. The filter pays no attention to the original art style and just conforms it to nividias Ai style.

They’re being very careful about cutting almost immediately after the DLSS is turned on. It all looks like printed media, not actual video. There’s something very off about the way the details just sort of track along the normals of the surface. Maybe something I’d enable as a novelty in a few rare cases, but certainly not something I’d use to replace any existing solutions.

Edit: There may come a moment in time, like it did for me with RTX (specifically Control) where a game finds a way to work it into the very idea of the look of the game and manages to make DLSS 5 look jaw-droppingly gorgeous. But that will be up to artists, not the geeks at NVIDIA trying to shortcut the artistic process. I can see it being a tool for some rare games, and those are the few I’m actually really looking forward to.

it's incredible that this can be done in real time on a consumer GPU.

this is also stupid and completely useless

Hmmm I also just thought of how this is it looking the "best" for the demo and that most of the time it will just be the makeup gun set to "whore"

I bet you're all being used to manipulate stock prices.

Insanely impressive that it’s able to do that in real time.

DLSS of course does use machine learning (transformers or CNNs) which you can call AI if you want, but I think there may be a bit of a misunderstanding about what this new version is actually doing. If you watch the video or read the breakdown they note that DLSS 5 is NOT replacing or altering the original graphical assets in the game with generated ones. There’s no new textures or 3d models being changed here. It only alters the lighting of the game to add more realistic shadows and reflections etc. It’s just that it does that so extensively that it gives the impression of being an almost entirely different image. Kinda nuts that lighting can do that but that is apparently what is happening here.

That said, arguments about artistic intent are still very relevant here since it’s a very different look to how the original devs may have intended.

Hey at least it still runs on your machine.

DLSS 6 will run exclusively on the cloud because RTX 6 series won't ship with any RAM or compute nodes since they all went into enterprise cards lol

Do you guys turn your graphics settings to lowest to make sure not to interfere with "artistic vision"? Or do you just not understand the technology at all?

The dev can literally control the vectors for DLSS 5 and test it for themselves until it looks how they like. If you don't like modifying frames, you should disable all post-processing shaders and most modern anti-aliasing too.

The second one didn't look too different from the original, but the first and third look so far from the source material, it's jarring.

Lighting in video games encompasses a lot of things these days. I'm not a graphic designer but, to my untrained eye, it looks like this tech is pushing hard on things like subsurface scattering to make materials appear more realistic. It doesn't appear to be changing the actual polygons. This picture further down seems like a more realistic example of what it would end up looking like when the technology is complete. I think they picked that particular first image as an example BECAUSE it's such a stark change.

Looks cool to me, photorealism is coming. Not really a gamer, btw

actually helps out in the sports games. ea has the same lightning like they had in 2006, so this takes it up to speed to 2020. however real games gonna look arse. alao 2 x 5090 cards required, donno who the fuck is the demographic. also thanks for killing dual gpu support so you could bring a shit one back.

I don't want to hate on it, but at the same time why is everything AI just hyper-realistic uncanny valley perfectionism BS?

I know people harp on AI for stealing art, but honestly whose art are they stealing? Because its really bad. If we're going to live in a dystopia can they at least steal art of people who are good at it.

Looks fine to me