I think the DLSS5 stuff looks weird and is being justifiably roasted by gamers right now. If you're a games artist who likes it - good for you I suppose.
But the thing I see no one talking about is the absolute lock in Nvidia is trying with this. The model is - so far - closed and only available on Nvidia hardware. It would be an end to cross platform releases that look the same. AMD and Apple (Silicon) would be not be able to render the same output at all.
As someone who works on graphics thats real concerning because it blows up a lot of work I do to make sure everyone gets the same experience. Even if every vendor launches their own weird AI post processing thing they're all going to look different and I've lost control of the final output completely.
That's fundamentally different than other techniques like upscaling because if the upscaler is broken I can point at the base image and go "see - thats what it's supposed to look like."
Colin Cornaby
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