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and don't forget to subscribe and follow below","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"deep learning super sampling this probably sounds like some kind of hokey way to balance your energy field or something but it's actually a new ai powered method from NVIDIA to make your games look better now you might have already been familiar with traditional super sampling that is when your graphics card renders frames at a higher resolution than what your monitor can support but then downscales the image to fit your display although it's very computationally taxing it can provide a significant quality boost that other anti-aliasing methods may not be able to achieve dlss however is quite different than standard super sampling and it's actually less demanding on your GPU instead of simply forcing your GPU to render higher resolution frames from scratch it uses a neural network to predict what the frame should look like the neural network is trained by an NVIDIA supercomputer that feeds it correct frames from certain games to help it learn how to generate extra pixels accurately these correct frames are actually 16k images so the ai will have a very granular level of detail to learn from the ai model is then sent to your GPU via driver updates so it can be run locally the idea here is that it's easier for your GPU to run this neural network when you're playing a graphically intense game running at a low frame rate than it is to keep drawing new frames from scratch regardless of how difficult the game is to run dlss uses a fixed amount of time per frame so it often doesn't take as long for your GPU to spit out a dlss assisted frame as it does to render one the old-fashioned way practically thanks to newer rtx gpus having specialized tensor cores that are supposed to be optimized for running ai they kind of are and a new version dlss 2.0 was recently rolled out and features a few key improvements for starters dlss 2.0 aims to provide near native resolution quality while the GPU renders well under half the pixels it would otherwise need to handle there are also efficiency improvements to the neural network that should help it process images faster ultimately boosting frame rates another big strength is that now the neural network is much more generalized instead of needing to separately train it for every game NVIDIA now uses more general visual content that's supposed to be more representative of a variety of different games which means improvements can be delivered to users more quickly and more games will end up supporting dlss users can now decide how much they want to utilize dlss technology rather than just leaving it completely up to the GPU and driver gamers can now choose between three modes for image quality prioritizing either greater image quality or higher frame rates the benefits of all of this can mostly been seen when looking at the finer details in a scene not just at the edges of objects where you traditionally see jaggies if the 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