This is really a test of bad anti-alias has become in games. So much that resolution scaling becomes the only means of avoiding shimmering jaggies.

This gets interesting when some game devs enable DLSS as an antialiasing solution (DLAA) while retaining the native render resolution.

Guys, I'm shocked by the scale of the work done. Thanks a lot. I would also like to see a comparison of DLAA with other AAs in native resolution

You have to disable then re-enable AA in Death Stranding Directors Cut edition each time you launch the game, otherwise it'll be without AA, even though in the graphics menu it says it's on. The standard Death Stranding didn't had this issue.

Awesome information. This channel has been especially hitting it out of the park with valuable and hard to find information. I know these videos are a ton of work, and I'm hoping others can appreciate and find this content as helpful and useful as I do.

I will never understand why the DLSS or FSR files are not updated... there are really big differences in quality and it's not a big job for the DEVs. but the result is all the greater.

Very well done balanced comparison! Thanks for the timely update on where we are at with the technologies.

Unbelievable content. Need to continue to showcase games relative performance between DLSS, fsr and native twice per year to keep up with the updates and new games coming out.

would love to see DLDSR together with DLSS added at some point in the future, i often use both together at 1440p and it further reduces flickering/aliasing.

I honestly just assumed going into this video that Native > DLSS and FSR in terms of quality, so it was pretty interesting to see how it resolved some issues with some games like DS. Great video!

I think you should consider testing more games with manually updated DLL file for the lastest version of DLSS. Since as you said, just by updating its version can change the result from worse than Native to match or even better, so I wonder if this is a trend across the board, and since this is a comparison of DLSS vs Native, I think it's fair to use the best and lastest version of it, since it can be manually done by users for free, not depending on games developers to implement. If the results are indeed positive for all, then it's gonna be truly a game-changing technology, since it'd be a truly free, stable and noticeable performance boost toggle that comes at no cost, and might even improve visual, simply a much better solution than overclocking since it's not dependent on silicone lottery.

Thank you for all your effort in producing these comparison videos it is much appreciated

I noticed that some DLSS version give you heavy ghosting. If i notice this in a new released game I replace the DLSS file with 2.5.0 or 2.5.1 version.

Maybe instead of or in addition to further optimizing DLSS and FSR image quality, maybe developers should just spend more time properly fixing the native rendering in many cases... Basically every single time DLSS was better, it wasn't because it was so good, but because native TAA just was so bad. We have seen that before with stuff like AMD's CAS which seemed to work just a lot better than what ever developers built themselves...

I love videos like this, GREAT JOB! i strongly hope develops will be updating their upscalers

Some other channels could learn from your image quality. Always sharp and clear 4k. Probably the best looking channel I watch. Why do other channels not look this good? Lol. Keep it up!

24 games, that's a lot of work) great job, Tim!

DLSS has a wonderful effect on surfaces that get shimmering lighting/shading or shimmering/bubbling screen space reflections that is pretty common on games of the last 3 years, my guess is that the temporal effect of it smooths it out, in sometitles it's very obvious like Cyberpunk 2077 where this kind of shimmering appears on a lot of surfaces. I guess theoretically a good TAA setting would be able to do the same, but it would have to be able to understand know what kinds of objects it should do it to, or it would cause ghosting... i guess this is where DLSS comes in, since the machine learning can make it understand what parts should reasonably not be shimmering... and modern 3.1 dlss is very low in noticeable ghosting anyway... also now with dlsstweaks which is a fabulous tool, and now it even comes with a UI program for people who might feel intimdated by editing the text files directly. With this, you can set your own internal resolutions... i've been playing around with it a lot... most games can run on really weird internal resolutions, like rendering at 3:2 3240x2160, which i've tried for 4k, so it is DLAA vertically, and DLSS horizontally... in games where you would need just a bit more performance with dlss but you are not satisfied with the "quality" option... or in games where you want something in between the available settings. I hope in the future this can be baked in as a slider in games, so that instead of having a number of options "quality, balanced, performance and ultra performance", you can just have a slider from full internal 1x resolution (DLAA) down to even below the ultra performance (x0.333333) level... I've had great use of this tool to max out for example The Last Of Us Part 1, so that I can set a resolution just high enough to look very close to native (so above the DLSS quality setting, which is x0.6666667) but still fitting within my VRAM limitations for a certain set of settings, that i wouldn't have been able to do if i ran it at native. DLSS really saves the day and i've tried using FSR and XeSS to see if they are any better in any game, but i haven't yet found any case where they look better. Having gone over to 4k tv for gaming and content viewing recently, I wouldn't even be able to run a lot of the games i like in 4k without dlss, it's really the main thing that would keep me from thinking of going over to AMD cards if i was looking for a new graphics card now.

Great content. Thanks for enourmous effort put into this video. Please keep up the great work. I learn a lot from your content.

Im interest about the Wattage used in all modes as well in times like we have today. Hope we can see a bit more information as well in the modes. Thx anyway for the good work :)

22:10 While in theory automatic updates sounds good, as a developer - in practice, we never want to release an untested update. In normal development cycle (and most of the cases), after releasing version 1.0 active development stops and we move to a support phase - where we do not add any new features and focus only on fixing bug and glitches. Most of the developers move to another projects (which may be even DLC for that game, but that also count as a different project) and since there is less human resources, you can't just constantly update such an important library like DLSS (important since it directly affects visuals of the game). If something worked before it's not guaranteed that it will still work after update - e.g. there may be a particle effect at a waterfall which after update starts producing ugly artifacts, QA may not catch this (mostly due to reduced resources), but gamers surely will - that's a big risk. Risk which can be avoided by not updating that library.

In some games I honestly prefer 4K native without any temporal AA/ similar techniques . FSR, DLSS and TAA when poorly implemented show lots of ghosting and shimmering which is super annoying

Love the content! Keep up the good work! 💪🏻

Thank you for the content. I would be really interested in seeing some game engine upscalers included for comparison, i.e. many of the games you tested have an in game render resolution slider - it would be really interesting to how they compare to DLSS. In particular because you can use that render resolution slider to hit a pretty exact desired FPS.

6:40 ummm what is happening when it pans down on the spiderman brick wall with DLSS? It is hitching badly and looks so glitchy. If I saw that in game, I would immediately turn off whatever is causing it (so DLSS). Why wasn’t this incredibly obvious artifact mentioned? Am I confused here and missed you addressing it? Thx

That native image instability and flickering bothers me a lot once I notice it and DLSS Quality fixes it in most cases so I'm using it almost all the time. To me that looks better than native TAA and I can't notice the ghosting tbh + less power draw and lower temps with better performance so its a win-win for me. Even on my lowly 29" 2560x1080 ultrawide Quality mode looks good enough to me, usually I manually update the DLSS dll with the 2.5.1 version tho I'm yet to check the newer versions.

Thanks for that. Did you guys plan to do some recent AA comparison ? (Including dldsr)

Very interesting video and comparisons. Would have liked some info on Cyberpunk as well though :)

Can we take a second to talk about the jumpy vertical scroll at the end of spiderman using dlss. Is that an actual thing? Or trouble during editing/encoding?

Great video ! People need to remember that DLSS / FSR / XeSS "ADD" performance with much better FPS. Which mean much better frametime and input lag that lead to smoother gameplay. When you can pull 30-40fps on native 4K/1440p/1080p in games you play and you can turn on DLSS to get much better fps or even stable 60fps that should be no brainer to turn on based on the 24 game comparison. With DLSS is edging closer to native in quality mode, FSR and XeSS catching up just mean better for costumer. The real problem just like the video point out, that new games release (hogwarts, deadspace, deathstranding, last of us) in native have much worse anti aliasing method implemented on their game in NATIVE. This feels the norm now that need more attention that developer making unoptimized game like when you can pull 14gb VRAM on the last of us just LOOKING AT A WALL.

Very good and informative. I did miss an fps counter here though.

Love the content and a;; you do. Low key it would be cool to see a Matt cameo soon 👀

Another use case for these upscalling techniques is to reduce the workload and power consumption on your graphics card. If it looks the same to you, just enable it.

I’ve felt that native is the only true sense of what a gpu can do, but I can’t tell the difference in SOME scenarios. If I’m in the middle of a game, I’d say there’s only certain things like the fence and things flickering that would get on my nerves. So it seems like it’ll end up being a game by game thing for me as to whether or not I’d use the tech or just play with native rendering.

I would love if you tested DLSS balanced also. Would be nice to know whether it would be a good tradeoff or whether it in general is something to be avoided.

Tim and Steve giving people the goodies! Good job!

That edition was "helpful-just-in-time". Getting these days frustrated with DLSS stuttering and lacking quality in FlightSim you mentioning the cpu limitation as deal breaker was very helpful. Enjoying the scenery low and slow with a real-life viewing distance means to run the simulation in a CPU limit more often then not. Your confirmation of the title looking much better in Native Res will have serious implications: the 7800X3d has to come to rescue. 😄💙PS: Regarding VRAM, the title (even in Mid Textures) uses more then 12GB ded. in dense areas.... the 3070 wasnt long in my system! Thanks

incredible result for DLSS lets be honest, just being a tie to native would have been incredibly impressive but to pull wins out the bag on multiple occasions, wow.

Better is subjective. What bothers you more? Blurry? jagged edges? Flickering fences? ghosting? Sharpened/oversharpened? SHimmering? Every one of these might have s different weight for each of us. I personally find DLSS fine on quality most of the time, and if I need it more aggressive than that then I drop resolution. But at times when flickering or ghosting is introduced I simply drop resolution instead. I can bear sharpening problems and blurriness, that's why I prefer resolution change to the other artifacts. However I don't play much of these games. A lot of these have bad TAA by default.

Cool video! I've been wondering about this for some time so it was useful to me. I also noticed that DS was far better looking with DLSS enabled. The aliasing with native was atrocious but with DLSS it looks fantastic. HU please do this grading for all games in existence so we can just look up the game we're gonna play in a database and set our game accordingly.

I'm super surprised how close it is. My mind doesn't want to believe it can be this close while giving so much better performance... To the point I keep forgetting it. Brain just doesn't want to get the picture, it doesn't fit with my expectations. Thanks for such patience diving deep into these topics! Making these questions as close to objective, and best explained as possible. Super amazing work taking something like subjective visual quality in upscaling, and digesting it into something nigh objective! Your commentary about what game devs should do is also super concise and actionable. If I could give a gold star award to your channel, I would. I'm having to seriously consider donating or subscribing on Patreon, even though that's something I rarely (just about never) do. Thank you again for your tremendous efforts over the years. Gamers can be so much more informed now than any time I can recall in history. And it's due to dedicated reviewers such as yourselves.

You know, I had been playing newer games with DLSS quality activated at 4K and 1440p with my 4090 and 3080 respectively, as they came as default. They looked fine. However, a few days ago I went back to native and I was surprised by how much crisper everything looked.

Very good video. I do wish you did show 1080p again because dlss really does help make images very tolerable where they wouldn't normally especially when running a low-end GPU. You really can get an extra boost of FPS and still not have to sacrifice much image quality or any at all with DLSS. In fact, in some games I played the dlss made 1080p look better when upscaling. That is subjective of course I guess. I know why you use the test system you use but I don't really think people with an RTX 4080 are going to need to use dlss often. 🙂 Thanks for the video. 👍.

The dragon neon sign on Hitman is losing a lot of brightness and bloom compared to native. The ~1-2 pixel wide neon information is lost and thus doesn't produce the light it was supposed to. That's pretty impactfull in my opinion. It's completely extinguished/muted on FSR. This is something that will be noticed a lot in Cyberpunk, where 1-2 pixel elements (neon signs again) have to convey bright, contrasted information and is further enhanced by bloom post processing.

My takeaway from this is I can’t really tell the difference so I can just go for fps ❤

To be fair, I think the "better than native" really comes into place in scenes with limited motion. It could be an RTS game, like The Riftbreakers, a slow dialogue focused cutscene like the Witcher 3, puzzle games like Lego Builders or just when standing still, detail studying environments or characters in Cyberpunk. In those cases the temporal resolve has a super-sampled "better than native" quality to it. With FSR showcasing flickering instability with sub-pixel geometry (due to the feature lacking a temporal smoothing pass, which DLSS has. However, this extra pass often causes extra ghosting in DLSS as a result). There are so many components to upscaling, and there's just a lot of subjective opinion of the image quality that you can't or don't really need to quantify. For me personally I rather play Cyberpunk with FSR Quality over the native image at 1440p due to the super sampled temporal resolve in cutscenes, dialogues, or just when detail studying the environment. During motion it's close to native, but with added flickering and slight fuzz. which I don't mind when I get into the game. So even if flickering CAN be distracting, to me it isn't all that important, and I value the benefits of FSR, over its drawbacks. And that's something that you can't really quantify even in an image comparison, because it really depends on the scene, what you value, how much you are into the game and what best depicts the artists intended look for the game. and so on.

another great video. this channel is on fire.

When I have performance left… I tend to do this trick… DLDSR 2.25x + DLSS Quality… I play on a 4K monitor, so the game would be rendered at 6K and DLSS Quality would make the game render internally at 4K and upscale to 6K… This makes the image look a lot sharper and better than regular 4K actually! Even on 6K Performance mode (which renders internally at 1620p), it usually looks almost like native 4K and lots of times even better than it by a bit.

IMO when testing native using post-process TAA (temporal anti-alising) is not showing native at its best, TAA when compared to DLSS or FSR, lacks a sharpening filter, it slightly blurs the image instead and worse creates artifacts that wouldn't exist with no AA. MSAA (multi-sampling anti-alising) would be the best AA option to use for native, when comparing image quality, but unfortunately, modern games have no MSAA support at all and forcing it on the drivers, only works for older D3d9 (direct X 9) games and that is a real tragedy to me. You can of course, still use SSAA (super sampling anti-alising) in any game, by just rendering it at a higher resolution than the one you display at, and that has the best image quality of all but also destroys performance.

The reason I stuck with Nvidia last year was due to DLSS, not too bothered over Raytracing, just DLSS. I use a 50 inch 4k TV and my old 2060 super using DLSS got stable 60fps at 1440p. My 3070ti on Dying light 2 gets stable 60fps at 4k using DLSS. Only thing I don't like is the vram only 8gig on 3070ti, Nvidia messed up with vram.

Excellent comparison! Will you test Cyberpunk in another separate video?

A couple of things... is there a reason that the DLSS version of Miles Morales videos started stuttering at 6:35-6:47, and God of War did the same at 12:45-13:00. You'd think DLSS would perform much smoother than native resolution. Also, thank you for making a point about games updating their DLSS versions. Trying to update DLSS in RDR 2 is almost impossible since Rockstar Launcher ALWAYS check to see if files have been moderated every time you play, and even if you update the DLSS version, Rockstar Launcher will ALWAYS replace it with its older v2.2.10 file. If you try and deny write/edit changes to the file, Rockstar Launcher won't even launch the game; It will stay stuck trying to 'update' the file.

Reading the comments, it would seem many haven't actually watched the video???

I just pick 1440p dlss quality + sharpening all day vs forced TAA in latest titles where you cant even pick another AA (cp2077 as example). Dlaa is good alternative

Great video, very interesting. On my 3080 and 1440p UW i use DLSS quality in cyberpunk as it still looks good and allows me to use some RT. On ACC tho DLSS looks like a blurry mess so i run native or higher But based on this video i may go back to ACC and compare DLSS vs AA options etc to see if i can get something close but with the obvious frame rate jump

I would really appreciate the test with NO AA! The biggest take is that if you are going to downgrade quality, FSR or DLSS makes no difference.

I used DLSS when first playing Cyberpunk on a 1080p ultrawide. Set a higher resolution than my panel and balanced it so it would render natively at the resolution of my panel; My panel would then downscale the higher game resolution image back to its native resolution. This gave me more distance clarity and a bit more stable image in Cyberpunk (that a month after release of CP, was before DLAA was an official thing in the driver or the game).

In my personal experience I noticed that the newer DLAA anit-aliasing algorithm works incredibly well with solving flickering issues and making the image look high res. I think this test shows that the Nvidia AA algorithm on DLSS handles scenes much better than TAA for example hence why DLSS looks better than native in many cases. I wonder if we will ever get a test comparing DLSS with DLAA. DLAA native scenes should theoretically be better than DLSS.

I'm interested in how the particles are being rendered at different resolutions. The example of the particles in the air in The last of us for example, is the issue that the lower resoltution render before upscaling, simply renders less particles therefore this is an expected outcome, or is the DLSS algorithm smoothing out some of the particles? I would be very cool if you were able to ask the game dev's some questions about how they find working with DLSS versus Native resolution.

This was enlightening. My biggest question now is how DLAA factors into all of this. I thought it was using the same basic technology as DLSS and thus would usually look better, but now I am less sure.

DLSS is just really good anti aliasing, that's why they added DLAA, which is just DLSS without upscaling

always update dlss to the newest version and test if its better. most of the time it will have great improvement in image quality (there are exceptions though)

You are really a great channel. But who told you that people do not play on 1080p any more?

Top quality work boyo's, keep it up.

It boils down to anti-aliasing, which can be pretty bad at native. Interesting that the FSR flaws to which Tim most often points are usually also present in the native/TAA presentation. This suggests to me that complaints about FSR are overblown. Yeah, FSR is worse than DLSS, but it's still pretty close to, and in rare cases better than, native quality. And given that modern games tend to have glaring issues otherwise--perhaps micro-transactions, brain-dead gameplay, bad AI/scripting, and/or things like persistent shadow/texture/mesh pop-in--given all of that, I have a hard time stressing out about minute differences in image quality. Still, I prefer to run native when I can.

I have a theory about some of your test data, for Spider-Man for example. I wonder if the game engine and texture packs are only optimized and designed for 1080p and 2160p. So when the game renders natively at 1440p, it’s just using something like a checkerboard technique to up the image to 1440p, whereas DLSS can upscale to 1440p from 1080p (quality mode) using its magical mathematical algorithms, which would also explain why the native 4K presentations were better than DLSS upscaling from 1440p, because the game engine already adjusted the image from 1080p to 1440p prior to DLSS then upscaling from 1440p to 2160p, which could explain why in Spider-Man and last of us, 4K native was so much better in it’s fine details then DLSS/FSR but native 1440p was much closer to DLSS/FSR. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ maybe this is something to look at in certain games, do certain resolutions offer up certain pros/cons and do some of those go away with certain DLSS/FSR settings ?? Is this just a DLSS/FSR issue, or is it also a possible game engine issue? Do some developers just not take the time to properly develop 1440p textures and details, which would make the DLSS quality mode using an already less optimized image ??

Only thing I see here is how fucking great FSR is, and that it does not need meme hardware to actually just work.

for some people over sharpened image with denoised textures with low flickering is better than non sharpened images with normal textures with flickers only seen when zoomed too far. But for me the later is better.when ghosting is minused image looks little bad at the edges

Standard TAA is often absolutely awful. I'll never understand how it was ever acceptable. DLSS (and fsr) often does a better job dealing with artifacts like ghosting, but obviously it can't compete with the sheer pixel count of native. A prime example is often flowing water. Transparencies often don't create motion vectors so any moving texture gets smeared like crazy with TAA, but dlss is capable of keeping the texture crystal clear in cases

This just makes me hope that AMD eventually releases a version of FSR that utilizes AI to enhance the quality of the image similar to DLSS. Perhaps it might only work on newer AMD gpus, and would otherwise revert back to normal FSR. But knowing AMD it will also work on any gpu capable of utilizing tensor ML cores. That would be the true "DLSS Killer"

Thanks for this video now I can trully say HUB is the channel that provides all decision factors for those looking to make the best decision for their budgets when purchasing a GPU

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The motion performance of both brothers me, I notice it immediately. Obviously they're always improving it but I personally choose not to enable them.

I could barely tell any difference in most cases lol. but that took a lot of effort so massive respect! 🙌🏻

this was very interesting. see i play mostly at 1440 because i like high fps and ive found i really like the sharpness that dlss or even fsr can give. like hogwarts and rdr2 and a couple others im not really thinking of imo just look better at 1440 than taa

Excellent content. It would have been better if you updated the DLSS version to the latest for all tests though, I don't think the game's default version matters for the enthusiast community (which I assume make up the majority of your viewerbase) when it can be easily swapped.

I would also like to see DLAA results and rendering the game at a higher resolution then down scaling it. I.e 4k to 1440p and seeing how those two compare to traditional TAA.

I'd love to see something like that for 1080p. Is it crap or is it any good?

Random question: why does the video quality on this channel always look so good? Uploaded in a different format?

I feel despite Nvidia getting a bad rap for charging a lot with their cards. One thing they have brought us in the gaming space is some amazing technologies. DLSS is a game changer, period. Being able to play games with huge performance gains with virtually no loss in image quality and even better at times is awesome. It can prolong the life of that expensive GPU significantly. They also brought Ray Tracing and now moving into path tracing. No matter what some people think that "don't need it". I call BS on that. Looking at Cyberpunk 2077 with now "Overdrive" path tracing. It's a massive difference. Even if it's super heavy to use today. It's a feature that will become a staple in gaming moving forward. This is excellent not just for us gamers with amazing visuals. It actually hugely help game developers as well. They don't have to sit and create "spot light" in environments and hand craft the scenes constantly. Because all the lighting is done for them and correctly that automatically also renders shadows how they should look. DLSS 3 and people saying fake frames. So what. It allows for a smoother game play visually and even cut CPU bottleneck. If you use it in single player games and have decent enough latency it's a huge boon. You can actually play Cyberpunk 2077 with Overdrive and maxed out and get over 90fps and latency is still far better than lets say playing a game using 60fps "Vsync". Yes it can have some artifacts but I take that tradeoff with having amazing lighting shadows. The kicker though is that you can actually play it with 60fps using just DLSS 4K performance mode and it's not really a visual downgrade. I love having my 4090. It's expensive, but I feel I have more advantages with it than any other GPU in recent memory. It's not just massive performance. It's all the features and headroom it has. Like in "The Last of Us". Because of the massive VRAM amount and sheer performance. That port for us with 4090 is near flawless to play. Yet others suffer like it's night and day difference. This all comes down to the performance and VRAM. I can play it natively maxed out and it does 80-110fps and stable as a rock. Some games it has so much horsepower it creates massive CPU bottlenecks. This just means the GPU will have a longer lifespan even. Considering VRR and DLSS exist. I can keep this card and skip the next 5000 series generation and still likely max out games. Yes the FPS will get lower. But with VRR, no tearing and DLSS keeps it up there longer and now with DLSS3 it can actually give you high fps going forward. Amazing. The fact that during the worst times during 3000 series and scalping a 3080Ti cost the same as my 4090 did. So I feel I only won with 4090. Now come next year I want a new CPU that hopefully has really strong performance to keep this bad boy maxed in utilization.

First off I just wanna say I really appreciate the effort you guys put into these videos to provide us with such in depth analysis and information on topics. That said, in this instance I think a more useful and widely applicable analysis would be to compare the image quality of native 1080p or 1440p to that of higher but upscaled resolutions, at quality settings where the upscalers render at or close to 1080p or 1440p respectively. For example: - Native 1080p vs 4K Upscaled on Performance (1080p render res) - Native 1440p vs 4K Upscaled on Quality (1440p render res) - 1440p Upscaled on Performance vs 1080p Upscaled on Quality (720p render res) I think these comparisons could be more useful because most gamers have hardware that actually allows them to use those setting combinations at playable framerates, whereas very few actually have the hardware that affords them the luxury of "choosing" between native 4K and upscaled 4K. Dlss/fsr were always meant to be tools to boost performance at a given res(or enable playable fps at higher res) while minimizing losses in image quality, more so than tools to outright boost image quality itself. Personally from my own sample size of 1, I have found that running games like MW2, Cyberpunk and Hogwarts at 2160p Performance or even 1620p Quality(also ~1080p render res) actually produces a more stable and sometimes better looking image than native 1080p, particularly in Cyberpunk. This makes the ~5-8% fps hit of running 2160p Performance Mode worth it over native 1080p. It would be nice to see what you guys think about this and if others experience the same thing.

This is unreal... you guys are putting out informative in-depth videos so frequently from hardware unboxed, hub clips and monitors unboxed, I have difficulty catching up and watching all of them! I highly suspect DLSS 4.0 video generation trickery has been used =P

awesome video, pretty much confirms my experience with high res + dlss quality

Whenever I see DLSS/FSR in a video: looks almost like native, even performance mode looks great Whenever I use them in a game: blurry mess, might as well use monitor upscaling

This tech has gotten so good lately, the very small issues that can be seen if you really look for it do not bother me.

I always noticed that DLDSR + DLSS quality looked way better than native 1440p while performing better or the same

Salute to Tim and Steve for the awesome content.

This is a software uplift and it should be free when you buy their gpu, but they upsell it with this ludacris gpu pricing… if people continue buying their stories, I expect them to sell it as a monthly service

That's very interesting. I didn't expect DLSS or FSR to match and even beat the native rendering. I guess it's because the TAA is not a great anti-aliasing technology... and hey, I'll take free performance with a better image any time! Thanks for the detailed look!

Interesting video. If anyone had asked me, I would never have thought any of the upscaling solutions would ever be better native. But it does make sense with titles that haven’t implemented proper high-end graphic features. Might even be a great way to visually overhaul older games if you can simply tack DLSS/FSR on to it, rather than having to update the core mechanics of the engine...

Aren't we talking about antialiasing quality though? I can tell the difference in Hogwarts for example between DLSS performance and Native in terms of overall resolution, DLSS performance looks blurred in comparison. The aliasing is cleaner for sure but the image is noticeably lower res imo.

The problem of quality of upscalers is not that it looks worse or better, but in higher res it changes settings for lod granting you more assets to work with. If you cuold overwrite that we could actually use it as legitimate aa without using details

in my opinion the boost in FPS is ALWAYS worth using DLSS in quality at minimum. sure in some games the ghosting will be noticeable but with higher fps you see more detail than at a lower fps and higher (native) res.

It would be good to point out that the image differs a lot based on the DLSS version which can be mostly replaced in a matter of minutes, for example the DLSS in RDR2 is trash but when replaced with version 2.5.1 it looks amazing.

I think you might have gotten your pics mixed up for the Spider-Man comparison as the hair on the DLSS Quality mode looks betther than the native 4k pic @5:09

The rain looked awful in Hitman DLSS. How could you look at that and come to that conclusion?

Native is GIGACHAD, no downscaling/upscaling, pure raw performance ftw!

DLSS Quality is really good most of the time so I usually turn it on when available.

Great video, thanks for the hard work! Got one question, why is DLSS and FSR creating totally blurry image in Warzone 2? Running 4090 at 1440p. Thanks for the insight!

Thanks again for the hard work