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Nvidia won, we all lost

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981 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 21:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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jekwoooooe ◴[04 Jul 25 23:23 UTC] No.44468810[source]▶
This guy makes some good points but he clearly has a bone to pick. Calling dlss snake oil was where I stopped reading
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1. kevingadd ◴[04 Jul 25 23:32 UTC] No.44468856[source]▶
The article doesn't make the best argument to support the claim but it's true that NVIDIA is now making claims like '4090 level performance' on the basis that if you turn on DLSS multi-frame generation you suddenly have Huge Framerates when most of the pixels are synthesized instead of real.

Personally I'm happy with DLSS on balanced or quality, but the artifacts from framegen are really distracting. So I feel like it's fair to call their modern marketing snake oil since it's so reliant on frame gen to create the illusion of real progress.