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DLSS 5 is getting an update this week that will double its performance

Make no mistake, lol. AMD is a cookin' somethin up.

They won't miss the boat on ai neural rendering and they are working hard right now to copy Nvidia and will do as AMD always does and offer a decent solution that isn't groundbreaking.

AMD isn't gonna miss the boat on this. I promise, lol.
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Dude I'm already running neural rendering on Amd. They're late to the party. :D

Scene does what AMD doesn't. :P

Edit: Buggy beat me to it.

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New Preset C adds around ~10% more performance in my Gears of War E: Day benchmark (with DLSS 5 and L Preset DLSS).

Preset B:
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Good stuff. I imagine it's one of the advantages of having such a small model in that training a new version doesn't take insane amounts of compute for weeks or months.
 
I thought dlss5 was only usable in mod form and it wasnt an official release...

Well good news nevertheless.

Another couple of performance improvements and i'm gonna be able to use it with my 4080 without playing at 20 fps.
 
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inb4 we get another wave of more 5090's melting because they were pulling 800Watt via that tiny ass cable

Any chance of this coming to 30xx cards in the future?

It'll be possible via but will be rough I just been watching a guy use in on an Assasins creed game getting locked 27FPS but it's pulling 420Watts.
 
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I'm so scared of my 4090 taking a very expensive shit that I still haven't messed around with this. I'll wait f9or them to keep working on it a bit.
Ummm...what? Is this thing risky for gpus? Or you are scared because 4090 can have the melting connector problem?
 
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I'm so scared of my 4090 taking a very expensive shit that I still haven't messed around with this. I'll wait for them to keep working on it a bit.
I'm using a 4090 Gigabyte Gaming OC and DLSS5 is flawless, connected with the same stock cable and I have it since it's release. Played the most demanding games and some with heavy mods, don't know which model you have but if you never had any issue you should give it a try. Undervolt it if you are really cautious but this melting problem is way overblown.
 
Probably now using NVFP4 data format.
And it will probably also block older RTX cards and non nvidia GPUs.
Performance gains at least will probably be locked to 50-series since hardware support for NVFP4 exists. Older RTX cards support it on software level via emulation, but likely wouldn't see any of the benefits.

Still waiting for confirmation on where the performance gains came from (probably will hear unofficial news soon from reverse-engineering DLLs), but if this ends up being the case then I wouldn't be surprised.
Current model is using FP8 precision for weights which is supported by both 40 and 50-series GPUs. I have a feeling they're focused on training a model with FP4 to optimize/reduce cost even further, but making up for the loss in precision hasn't yielded acceptable results yet. In the latter case, FP4 is only supported by 50-series at the hardware level but can be emulated in older gen. Would make sense that they don't want to deal with that can of worms since it locks future performance gains to 50-series only. Imo tho, having support on older gen hardware but with a huge hit to performance would be fine since at least consumers wouldn't be blatantly restricted from using the feature. On the other hand, folks might just complain and spin up a narrative that DLSS5 isn't worth the performance cost when in reality they just don't have right hardware-level support.

Kinda like the situation with DLSS4.5 second-gen transformer models - only makes sense to use on 50 and 40-series cards from a performance standpoint.
 
Performance gains at least will probably be locked to 50-series since hardware support for NVFP4 exists. Older RTX cards support it on software level via emulation, but likely wouldn't see any of the benefits.

Still waiting for confirmation on where the performance gains came from (probably will hear unofficial news soon from reverse-engineering DLLs), but if this ends up being the case then I wouldn't be surprised.
They said they wont have it official on older cards untill they have stabilized on 5000 series. Then they work on 4000 series
 
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