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by Dylan16807 1131 days ago
Arguably native rendering wouldn't have antialiasing, because that would be downscaling, so DLSS would have both some disadvantages and some advantages. So the best case is better than "not too annoying", it has the potential to beat pure native rendering.
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pixelpoet 1131 days ago
> Arguably native rendering wouldn't have antialiasing, because that would be downscaling

If you're unfamiliar with computer graphics it's unhelpful to try to nitpick and just end up being incorrect. Antialiasing is not downscaling, and less data is never going to beat more data for visual fidelity.

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Dylan16807 1131 days ago
I said 'arguably' for a reason, not out of ignorance. Parts of the pipeline are still per-pixel, and parts are effectively rendering at a higher resolution.

> less data is never going to beat more data for visual fidelity

It has less data but better processing. That can look better sometimes.

Except it doesn't strictly have less data. It has multiple frames and other information to work with.

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