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I'm completely speechless. This looks so terrible I thought it was a joke, but apparently Nvidia released these demos to impress people. DLSS 5 runs the entire game through an AI filter, making every character look like it's running through an ultra realistic beauty filter.

The photo above is used as the promo image for the official blog post by the way. It completely ignores artistic intent and makes Grace's face look "sexier" because apparently that's what realism looks like now.

I wouldn't be so baffled if this was some experimental setting they were testing, but they're advertising this as the next gen DLSS. As in, this is their image of what the future of gaming should be. A massive F U to every artist in the industry. Well done, Nvidia.

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[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 384 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (13 children)

Check out this fun little nugget from further down in the article:

Nvidia actually used two RTX 5090s for its demos: one plays the game, the other exclusively runs the DLSS 5 technology.

An entire second GPU just to run it.

Good, so my hardware won't support it. XD

[–] SeventySeven@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 hours ago

WTF, I thought the point of DLSS was to gain performance, not lose performance...

[–] Fabrik872@lemmy.world 233 points 22 hours ago

I think you have a typo there: An entire second GPU just to ruin it.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 27 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

That was my first thought too lol

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 49 points 20 hours ago

That's actually good news in my eyes, we definitely won't see this hit the consumer market for years.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 79 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Can hardly afford or find one, they expect us to buy two? Fuck them

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 80 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

They have no intention to sell them to us. They'll maybe let us play it like this thorugh GeForce Now, or any other streaming service.

They don't want regular folk to buy PCs anymore.

So, yes. Fuck them indeed.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 31 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

No. They want regular folk to buy PCs. They just have no idea what regular folk can afford. How much could a banana cost, 10 dollars?

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, their sales team is incredibly fucked over from their only significant revenue being various AI farms.

[–] Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 30 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Context is important. The following sentence is:

The use of two GPUs is required right now as DLSS 5 still has a long way to go in terms of optimisation - both in terms of performance and its VRAM footprint. However, DLSS 5 is designed for use on a single GPU and that's how it will ship later this year. Quite how scalable it is also remains to be seen, but in common with other DLSS technologies, Nvidia tells us that the computational cost scales with resolution.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 7 points 11 hours ago

But still the idea of DLSS was to claw back performance lost to raytracing, right? This is the exact opposite of that, it costs performance to sloppify the game. I just pray it's gonna be an optional feature in games and I can still use DLSS 4 instead.

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 40 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Sure just double the vram and your AI can run, unfortunately you can't afford that vram because billionaires are running AI.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 23 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's always funny to me when Nvidia releases new 8GB cards and new VRAM-heavy features as a reason to buy them.

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

8gig isn't even enough for 4k right now. There's a guy that took his 3070 up to 16gig and it really shows the cards are ram limited. And also it's a serious pita to change vram without melting the card.

[–] Bunitonito@lemmy.world 29 points 22 hours ago

2017: Buy 2x 1080 Ti for 1500 bucks, your build is GOATed, have fun spending half your time tinkering with your overclocks and fishing for the perfect SLI compatibility bits in Inspector

2026: This. It's a shame

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Ha ha thats great. Reminds me of PhysX back in the day where initially it needed a dedicated card.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Some of us are old enough to remember when your games would sound different depending on which sound card you had installed.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

Sound Blaaster!!

IRQ 3 DMA 8 bit (or what was that now again)

[–] ivanvector@piefed.ca 17 points 16 hours ago

Ahh, I remember the first time I heard the intro music to Star Control through my Sound Blaster instead of through my motherboard's piezo speaker. Like the audio version of The Wizard Of Oz switching to colour.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

Features that need 2x the GPUs makes the stock go up 2x

Back to the ol pysx GPU days. Except physx made the game cooler.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

Great the new SLAI.