NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Upscaling Performance Review & Analysis

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DLSS 4.5 Image Captures

In the following sets of screen captures, we attempted to capture the same basic random scene in each game from driver 591.74. The first image of the pair is from the DLSS 4.5 “Quality” setting, and the second image is from the DLSS 4.5 “Performance” setting. Although this is far from scientific, given the sheer number of run-throughs we made to gather data, we were hard-pressed to find much in the way of a difference in image.

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Other than it being difficult to capture exactly the same image while running the benchmark in real time, the images we captured are nearly identical. The advance in technique is impressive. At this point, if you need more performance, you can gain it without the obvious loss in fidelity. After viewing these scenes through the course of testing, we have to say it is very hard to tell Quality from Performance in DLSS 4.5. We truly believe it would pass a Pepsi Challenge.

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Rick Patterson
Rick is an avid gamer that enjoys the latest and greatest video cards in his rigs. For the past few years, he's shared that expertise with The FPS Review's audience as a GPU reviewer.

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