- Nvidia confirms that DLSS 5 is essentially just AI image enhancement and not rendering.
- It takes a 2D frame with motion vectors and upscales it with the help of AI.
- Despite earlier claims, devs don’t seem to have much control over the tech.
DLSS 5 has been a huge topic of controversy ever since Nvidia introduced it earlier this week. The new iteration of the upscaling tech has received heavy backlash for altering the art style of a game and turning into AI slop.
Amid the controversy, Nvidia has confirmed that DLSS 5 doesn’t actually render the frames; it is more of an AI image enhancement thing. It takes the 2D frames plus the motion vectors and enhances them.
Why it matters: So, while in the showcase, Nvidia labelled it as a breakthrough in rendering, it isn’t essentially doing something groundbreaking at all; it’s just adding a layer of AI to the visuals.
Daniel Owens asked Nvidia some key details about DLSS 5. He asked if the tech is taking 2D frames as an input with motion vectors to create the output frame, to which Nvidia’s Jacob Freeman replied, yes it is.
So, to explain it in simpler terms, the tech is just taking a screenshot of the game and feeding it into a generative AI for it to decide what it thinks it should look like, with little control over the output from the artists besides color grading.
This is quite different from what Jensen Huang claimed earlier that DLSS 5 ‘isn’t generative AI, it is content-control generative AI‘. Despite the claims, it doesn’t seem the developers have a lot of free rein.
It’ll be interesting to see how this evolves from here, as there are still a lot of months till DLSS 5 actually arrives. But for now, results and even responses from Nvidia’s staff don’t seem to promise too much.
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