NVIDIA Rumored To Launch DLSS 4 Upgrade Exclusive To RTX 50XX Series

NVIDIA is set to launch a brand new version of its AI powered image reconstruction technology, DLSS 4, based on a new rumor.

[moomoo319]

Yeah spend 1500+ dollars to play marginally better looking games with the same mechanics as games 15-20 years go (no joke). PC tech is just a racket at this point.

[Vits]

Modern PC tech has turned into such a mess for games, plain and simple. With all the fancy hardware and tools like DLSS, FSR, and XeSS, developers have gotten lazy. They don’t even try to optimize games anymore because they know these features can slap a Band-Aid over the problem. Instead of pushing for better performance, they’re just dumping half-baked games on the market, confident that modern tech will make up for their lack of effort. But hey, look how shiny that surface is...

And as if that wasn’t already a huge issue, here comes engine consolidation, led by the always-disappointing Unreal Engine 5. It’s the industry’s go-to tool because it’s universal and easy to access, but that has encouraged studios to cut corners everywhere. Instead of building teams of experienced developers who know how to make games run well, they’re outsourcing huge chunks of work or hiring entry-level people to fill the gaps. It’s cheaper, sure, but it’s also why so many games look great in trailers and then run like garbage at release. The next phase is bound to be full-on AI-made games, and honestly, with how things are going now, I’m not even sure if they could be worse.

[Furesis]

i dont like that you blindly blame devs for this. publisher says release the game on this date, dev says that's not enough time, so they make compromises and optimization is one and a lot of devs just dont have the skills to even do it. many more layers to this but yes modern games are sometimes a joke considering where we came from not that shitty games didn't exist before. simplification promotes laziness and im not a fan of dlss, frame gen etc. anyways
And fuck TAA

[1nsomniac]

Journalism and “influencers” at their finest!

**Surprise shocker** new hardware states it utilises companies new tech…

“This proves it’s exclusive to the hardware” - despite it not saying that anywhere and there is absolutely no indication that will be the case.

“Yea but I reported it first, if it comes true I would have leaked it to the world”.

[1nsomniac]

Don’t know why this just popped up in the current feed it’s almost 3 weeks old… it proves exactly what I said about the obvious failings of “gaming journalism” and “influencers” though. Complete waste of space oxygen stealers!

[WolfSeed]

It's time to protest on the abuse.

[DivineHand125]

Remember when Android phones locked version upgrades to each generation of phone as a tactic to boost sales? Well now with increased competition, we are now seeing the biggest brands for each phone generation getting 4-6 years' worth of version updates.

Competition is important and PC gamer brand loyalty is partly to blame. No matter how much AMD cards come down in price and how good the price to performance was, they still overwhelmingly buy Nvidia because that is what everyone else is using. Now AMD has dropped out of the high-end market, leaving NVidia to do whatever they want to do.

We are now at the point where we are seeing the reverse of what is happening in the smartphone world where each new technology is locked to each graphics card generation even though the existing hardware is capable of running it. If each GPU generation came out once every 4-5 years it wouldn't be so bad but instead, they are releasing $1000 plus GPUs every 2 years. The worst part is that the resale market for high end GPUs is not that good because no sane thinking person would pay upwards of $800 for a used GPU.

The sad part is that content creators will still push it, benchmarking channels like DF will continue to use high end Nvidia cards on their test bench, you will still see guys uploading their RTX 5090 PC builds on reddit and other forums to continue to promote Nvidia's market dominance.

AMD dropping out of the high-end market could make their situation worst because part of the reason Nvidia has such a large market share is due to those 80 and 90 range GPUs. They are universally recognized as the most powerful GPUs in the gaming market and people choose the low and mid-tier options because they are associated with those high-end enthusiast GPUs even though they don't have anywhere near the same compute power.