Nvidia's new DLSS 5 Brings Photo-Realistic Lighting To RTX 50-Series
www.digitalfoundry.net
A massive technological leap for graphics - and we've been hands-on with four games.

Jyk0L8eLs7jd7es.png

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.

  • TheObviousSolutionEnglish
    58·
    7 days ago

    https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-dlss-5-delivers-ai-powered-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games

    DLSS 5 introduces a real-time neural rendering model that infuses pixels with photoreal lighting and materials. Bridging the divide between rendering and reality, DLSS 5 empowers game developers to deliver a new level of photoreal computer graphics previously only achieved in Hollywood visual effects.

    DLSS 5 takes a game’s color and motion vectors for each frame as input, and uses an AI model to infuse the scene with photoreal lighting and materials that are anchored to source 3D content and consistent from frame to frame. DLSS 5 runs in real time at up to 4K resolution for smooth, interactive gameplay.

    At most it’s texture generation, but if Jensen already identified it as generative AI, I’m not sure why they would then go and lie about it only affecting lighting and material at the pixel level.

    It’s image generation just like the prototypes that converted your drawings into “realistic” image are.

    This it is not, and if Jensen hadn’t referred to as generative AI, I would still think it’s just an evolution of what DLSS had been doing, except expanded to lighting and materials. Jensen obviously has no problem referring to this as generative AI, so I’m not sure why he would hide and lie about doing what you claim.

    • Cruel@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      People downvoted for ruining the circlejerk AI hate without bothering to understand the technology. 😩

      • TheObviousSolutionEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        It’s worse, I made plenty of criticism to go along with those comments. They are downvoting not only anything that breaks the circlejerk. They’ve been given free reign to be as toxic as possible, to the point of just being able to get away with spamming multiple communities with claims I’m a bot - and I can’t even have my usual fun trolling back in the sea of downvotes because I wrongly dismissed that this was generative AI, something Jensen himself had referred to as 😭

        It would be funny if my account is lost for an issue so temporary. I’ve already begun to see the circlejerk try to get over what this actually is by switching over from claiming it is AI slop to saying it just makes it look like it and criticism that’s actually more valid. Still, it’s led to the pretty funny circumstances of people implying I’m an NVIDIA shill, because that also implies that NVIDIA shills have to now get around by telling people they should not support them and their abusive monopoly feeding the AI bubble through global cartels.