Back to returning to my role as the ‘MFG defender’ I guess
Addressing several points raised…
Yes, Nvidia told a big porky pie with the 5070 = 4090 thing. Criticism of that sales pitch is fair. The raw raster uplifts of the 50 series isn’t as good as the 40 series, we all know.
Beyond that,
everyone has said they’ve been impressed by the MFG tech whilst noting that it would be incorrect to suggest that it’s perfect. At least a couple have outright said that they ‘prefer it’.
The only professional reviewer I’ve heard that said he doesn’t intend to use it was Linus, remarking that he’s an absolute demon when it comes to pixel peeping because it’s his professional job. It was quite funny hearing about how he could instantly spot the differences in a blind upscaling test which upset Nvidia back in the day
My personal minimum for ‘good FPS’ is 90. If I’m hitting that at 4k, I’m happy. My new monitor is going to be able to push 240fps at 4k. So regardless of whether it’s ‘needed’, I’m personally pretty excited to try this out and experience it, which is completely impossible without FG in demanding titles. The major thing that everyone was critical of in the first place was the latency issue, which appears to have been practically solved.
Really, I think Nvidia have shot themselves in the foot on this, because it was THEM (not the consumer) that started comparing it to ‘real frames’.
At any specific settings, the real choices for everyone are:
(1) raw raster = frames
(2) raw raster + upscaling = more frames (1.2x) with some artefacts
(3) raw raster + upscaling + FG =
much more frames (1.8 - 3.8x) with some more artefacts.
There is no choice of “1.8 - 3.8x” frames without FG, so I think making a comparison as if anyone can push these frame rates at 4k as a ‘real choice’ is misguided. Put another way, despite Nvidia’s flub IMO people shouldn’t dismissing MFG on the basis ‘imaginary options’. I think it has some value as a choice.
But if you would also rather either lower res and lower frame rates to avoid the artefacts (like Linus), that’s fine. It’s a case of picking your personal compromise that bothers you the least (on a per game basis, I guess).
I’ll do my best to be honest with myself and avoid ‘wow what I bought is the bestest!’-syndrome if I think it’s **** or distracting.
Also seen a few people claim that the new DLSS transformer mode is as good at perf mode as the old cnn at quality mode. Not yet convinced but I have only tried it in CP2077 and FF7Rebirth.
