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I saw a meme about something of fake frames, but i don't know what happened.

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[–] givesomefucks 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

Fake frames is "frame generation" for Nvidia it's called ~~DLLS.~~

Rather than having the graphics card create 120 frames, you can crank the settings up to where you only get 60, then AI "guesses" what the next frame would show doubling it to 120 but keeping the higher settings.

This can make things blurry because the AI may guess wrong. So every odd frame is real, every even frame is just a guess.

Frame 1: real

Frame 2: guess

Frame 3: real

If the guess for #2 is accurate, everything is cool, if #2 guessed a target moves left when it moved right then #3 corrects and that "blink" is the problem.

The bigger issue is developers relying on that tech so they don't have to optimize code. So rather than DLSS being an extra ompf, it's going to be required for "acceptable" performance

[–] stankmut 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

To add on to this, the 5000 series now generates 3 fake frames per real frame instead of just 1.

[–] NewNewAccount 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is “fake” being used as a pejorative here?

[–] stankmut 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was just using the term that the previous commenter used to keep terms consistent.

[–] NewNewAccount 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah not sure if there’s a better word to use without coming across as pedantic.

Fake certainly implies these are worse (which they of course are), but I’m not sure if they’re that much worse. I think in many scenarios the proverbial juice would absolutely be worth the squeeze, but naysayers seem to disagree with that sentiment.

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