What does DLSS do exactly? I am playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 4K with a 2070S/Ryzen 3700X. Settings on a mixture of high/normal with DLSS off, no AA and RT off. Some areas I get around 45fps but mostly 55-60fps. If do turn on DLSS it shoots to 60fps and rarely dips which is the refresh rate of the 4K tv. Does DLSS adjust all quality settings on the fly? I did read a bit and I thought it was just a AA alternative with less performance impact.
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A Quick DLSS Question
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Official version.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/news/nvidia-dlss-your-questions-answered/
Red team version.
It's like smearing Vaseline on your eye balls and lowering your resolution, while giving you a few more frames per second.
Green team version.
It uses magic and wizardry that people of the red persuasion cannot fathom all the while increasing your FPS and making your game look almost like 4k.
Hopefully that helps.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/news/nvidia-dlss-your-questions-answered/
Red team version.
It's like smearing Vaseline on your eye balls and lowering your resolution, while giving you a few more frames per second.
Green team version.
It uses magic and wizardry that people of the red persuasion cannot fathom all the while increasing your FPS and making your game look almost like 4k.
Hopefully that helps.
Well with any luck most sensible people will realise that other than the official version link I am joking. but of course this is the OCUK forum so probably not.
DLSS runs the game at a lower resolution internally. eg. the game is actually running at 1440P; Nvidia then scales it upto 4K using the tensor cores on your GPU and tells you it's 4K(DLSS). You can achieve the same thing by using an in game render scale slider (to about 70%).
The performance gain comes from the game engine not having to render at 4K. Scaling up the smaller image is faster than processing a raw 4k frame buffer.
The performance gain comes from the game engine not having to render at 4K. Scaling up the smaller image is faster than processing a raw 4k frame buffer.
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The last person to post a quick question about DLSS, ended up starting the thread that just won't die! 
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...ing-rtx-dlss-does-not-work-this-gen.18862822/
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...ing-rtx-dlss-does-not-work-this-gen.18862822/
Not correct. What they do is they lower resolution & use AI to reconstruct detail back to native resolution. Essentially it's a fancy upscaling technique (even if that description wouldn't be technically correct). In practice it kinda works like applying a beautify (instagram) filter to your lower resolution image, so you get higher performance but lose fine detail. EG:
DLSS VS 4K w/ AA VS 4K + RIS, no AA
It really isn't, but unfortunately that is certainly how it has been perceived.
It is, there is no other reason for running a lower resolution. The whole thing is built to make RTX run at acceptable frame rates, because it won't at native resolutions.
Once we have hardware which can do realtime ray-tracing at 60fps there wont be any need for it.
Only game supporting it, on pre-backed lower resolution that varies depending the card. on 2080Ti DLSS is better than 2070/S for example. On same resolution and same settings.
You can use DLSS without RTX on.
Yea or you could just turn the resolution down yourself, for better results
DLSS looks better than simply turning the res down.
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Ive never seen any posts from AMD owners, slating their DLSS, which is done via software.
Not in comparison screenshots it didnt. Worse FPS as well.