Nvidia DLSS vs AMD FSR

Which AI upscaling technique has the edge? Zak Storey investigates.

HEAD TO HEAD NVIDIA DLSS Free, www.nvidia.com AMD FSR Free, www.amd.com 4K gaming is a problem. It’s always been a challenge to render at that high a resolution. If anything, the res arrived long before any graphics card or console could touch it. The problem is simple: compared to 1080p, 4K represents a 300 percent increase in the number of pixels on display at any given time. We effectively quadrupled the total workload overnight by shifting to a 4K resolution. Not only that, but even in 2024, eliminating jaggies is as important as it ever was. Antialiasing efforts similarly are incredibly graphically intensive. Jaggies occur because games render textures in pixels, and because pixels are square, you end up with artifacts creating a jagged texture, often along the edge of…

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