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DLSS 4 Upscaling at 4K is Actually Pretty Amazing (www.techspot.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

GTX cards don't have the hardware to do DLSS though, so unfortunately this is impossible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Nonetheless, I think that it is possible to modificate these cards, to have an upscaling chip inside it. But it would take some effort, which no company will ever do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I was gonna say my 1660 Super is still able to do that in most modern games without DLSS (or FSR). In fact, most of the time turning on the AI upscaling makes things run worse and I don't even understand that. But like, two games that release in the same month and one runs great maxed out while another putters along at 30-40 on low settings with the upscaling off, despite both being on the same engine, tells me that one of them is using DLSS/FSR as a crutch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

most of the time turning on the AI upscaling makes things run worse and I don't even understand that

My understanding is that DLSS/FSR are usually converting GPU load into a lesser CPU load. But if you're already bottlenecked by your CPU, using the upscalers will hurt your performance instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

I got a Ryzen 5 3600. It shouldn't be bottlenecked. But also, the games where it does make things worse run absolutely perfect without it, and the ones that work better with it on run like ass without it, so I had been assuming that maybe it was messing things up because I really don't even need it. 🤷🏻‍♂️