Nvidia in Germany now revealed they would ship a special GPU driver for its GeForce-series when EA releases the Battlefield 3 beta. The driver will max out DX11 features like tessellation and shall bring you a small performance boost.
NVIDIA rolled out the DLSS 4.5 update at CES last week, adding 2nd Gen Transformer-based Super Resolution technology for all RTX GPUs. The performance scaling varies wildly across the older (RTX 20/RTX 30) and newer (RTX 40/RTX 50) GeForce RTX lineups. We tested NVIDIA’s next-gen upscaling solution across Cyberpunk 2077, Black Myth: Wukong, Oblivion Remastered, and KCD 2.
I've been surprised by this, the difference between 4 and 4.5 is very noticeable. It's almost completely or has removed that weird dark ghosting that you'd get in foggy games like Silent Hill 2... and Cyberpunk mixed with a high res texture pack is jaw dropping in ultra 4k.
Also if anyone doesn't know I recommend DLSS swapper, it allows you to inject the latest DLSS version into older games.
Quite amazing. But, this does probably mean devs will depend on ai even more for their supposed optimizations lol.
no offense to AMD, but this sort of stuff shows that they are always going to be playing catchup. I guess Nintendo can take advantage of some of these features.
With the Switch 2? NVidia can easily lock their proprietary tech to their latest GPUs and the Switch 2 will be stuck on 3.5 for 5 more years at least
4 and 4.5 are available on 2 and 3 series cards right now. The Switch GPU is based on 3 series architecture, meaning it has access to some of those features. Obviously not as much as the higher end cards, but still some.
"Better than native."
Native 4K in nearly all games nowadays is actually native resolution with forced temporal anti-aliasing.
TAA smears and blurs frames together to soften jagged edges.
Of course DLSS makes games look "better than native" because native alone without any competent AA methods makes games look horrible.
RTX 50 series users can now gain access to GPU-accelerated PhysX effects in supported titles.
They didn't want to spend time/money keeping it updated for modern cards, I understand why they did it, but I'd rather they keep it going since it's removal makes a handful of popular games run worse.
wait? i thought it was a hardware thing, so you're telling me it was there all the time and they just... turned it off?
PC gamers got the brand they deserved in Nvidia. They've been anti-consumer since the beginning.
That’s an excellent update. I thought this had something to do with the hardware itself and not just a software patch but either way this is great news
Great news! Initially was disappointed that my Steam copy of AC4: Black Flag wasn't compatible on my new 5070 ti laptop but since the update, happy to say I have downloaded and played the game successfully (Black Flag's my favorite AC).
FSR 4 was a substantial improvement to AMD’s upscaling solution. It reduces ghosting, improves finer mesh retention, and particle effects. In most cases, it delivers similar visual quality to DLSS 4’s CNN model, but slightly worse than the newer transformer model.
Since FSR is open-source and nvidia's DLSS isn't, I'd personally always prefer FSR.
Frankly, I think all these differences are nice to know (and notice) about if you're playing at DF level. And I totally respect that very small need to max out performance.
But given the prices, I don't think any nvidia GPU advantage justifies paying 1000+ bucks. I don't see any game(s) exclusively (or not) available on PC that offer a fundamentally different and innovative gameplay experience.
There's never a good reason to own any products from Nvidia. They are one of the most destructive and anti-consumer companies that's ever existed.
Anyone buying and using Nvidia is only contributing to the downfall and end of gaming as we know it now.
With the rise of Nvidia all we've seen is price gouging while their products that continue to become less power efficient and their performance gains are so miniscule you'd need a 100x microscope to notice the AI upscaling. Pathetic really.
Why do you need to pay 1000 bucks for an Nvidia GPU? You can find one that is faster than the PS5 Pro at 400 bucks, RTX 5060 ti 16GB, and it has better upscaling, more VRAM, multiframe generation and RT.
Exactly. Headline says FSR looks like last gen. Implying it's years behind the competition. Article says it's slightly behind.
Examples shown, the difference are barely discernible.
I dont know about anyone else, but I've never had 2 screens playing at the same time to know the difference in performance of a given game. It's like those TV screen comparisons, virtually nobody in the real world engages does this, lol. Performance seems comparable to me. Besides Nvidia is no longer interested in the gaming products, its full steam ahead with "AI".
Yeah, but the gaving division is still 8.5% of their global revenue, and they just made 30% YoY topline growth per quarter. A 11.35 billion business is absolutely massive, and this will continue to increase. That means there's 11.35bn reasons why they won't stop the gaming business, nor lose their focus on it. It's also their pivot if things do not go as well in the AI race. By end of 2026, they have DOUBLED the gaming division business in 5 years.
FY 2025 $11.35 billion 8.6%
FY 2024 $10.45 billion 15.2% (approx)
FY 2023 $9.07 billion -7.5% (approx)
FY 2022 $9.82 billion (approx) 49.6% (approx)
FY 2021 $6.5 billion (approx) 61.1% (approx)
I've been lucky enough to get a new 5090 build in March, glad I went with Nvidia. Cyberpunk looks amazing.
Awsome news been waiting for more info since the first alpha trial.
Unfortunatly im buying retail copy, my moh was on ps3 witch now sold. So roll on end october.
Cheers dice. Cant help but wonder about radion card's
was is this big news? nividia has done this lots of times in the past with games dice should be doing this not nividia but im glad once again nvidia is stepping up making sure another pc gmae actually does what it's suppose to do and makes sure the game performs better.To bad pc user got shafted with the pos orign bs i will never touch bf3 on pc ever even it is was free and came with a free lapdance/twins/case of beer FU EA AND ORIGIN.
Full SLI support needs to be onboard, and specifically this game only. I hope Nvidia will pull an all out on BF3.
Hmmm DICE are really rimming nividia arent they? and WTF their geForce series? update the GTX series nivida you D bags!
Who uses a geforce for gaming anymore? bit dated IMO
I am using a GTX570 which will do just fine. Thanks.