As we’ve already reported, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will support NVIDIA DLSS 2, Intel XeSS and AMD FSR 1.0. Thus, we’ve decided to benchmark them and share some comparison screenshots.
For these 4K benchmarks and comparison screenshots, we used an Intel i9 9900K with 16GB of DDR4 at 3800Mhz and NVIDIA’s RTX 4090 Founders Edition. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, and the GeForce 522.25 driver.
Below you can find some comparison screenshots between NVIDIA DLSS 2 Quality (left), Intel XeSS Quality (middle) and AMD FSR 1.0 Quality (right).
As we can see, AMD FSR 1.0 Quality offers the best performance. In most cases, AMD’s upscaling technique is faster by 10fps than NVIDIA’s DLSS. NVIDIA DLSS 2 Quality is in second place, followed by Intel XeSS Quality.
However, AMD FSR 1.0 looks awful compared to NVIDIA DLSS 2. Seriously, it’s a blurry mess. NVIDIA DLSS 2 Quality does a better job at reconstructing missing details, and offers a sharper image (it’s also the only upscaling technique that has a sharpening slider in this game). In fact, NVIDIA DLSS 2 Quality can offer a better image quality than even native 4K.
Intel XeSS comes in second place as it can offer a better image quality than AMD FSR 1.0. It’s unfortunate that the game only supports FSR 1.0 and not FSR 2.0. However, you may be able to enable FSR 2.1 via mods.
All in all, NVIDIA’s DLSS 2 appears to be the big winner here. After all, it offers the best image quality/performance ratio. Owners of older NVIDIA GPUs can use Intel XeSS as it appears to be offering a better image than AMD FSR 1.0. In our test system, Intel Xess Quality performed noticeably better than native 4K. We’ve seen reports though that Intel XeSS may not work well on AMD’s hardware. As such, and if Intel XeSS Quality runs worse than your native resolution, you should – obviously – avoid using it.
Be also sure to check out our PC Performance Analysis!
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wtf is ggmanlives smoking? The campaign isnt good, its too boring repetitive and grounded to reality, the moron even compares it to netflix tv shows, why yes thats exactly how it feels, crap made for streaming mass consumption, its “content” its not not “art”. It feels like the moh 2010 or bf3 campaign not the old cod games.
can always just use that dll mod that turns dlss into fsr2.
For some reason these scenes really bother me.
It’s the uncanny valley effect but for environments instead of people.
I have been to Amsterdam many times, and while it is clear they just photographed and copied the whole damn place to make it super realistic, there is something incredibly offputing, eerie and creepy about the renderings that is not there in real life.
I think it has to do with the “HDR” lighting that makes everything look like it’s lit at the same time. I might also be because they shot the textures at different times during the day, and when you all bring them together, it no longer makes sense.
they cant make it quite there so it looks weird, i dont think this looks pretty by the way it looks like watchdogs to me, just more hd.
FSR 1.0 may not be worth it in single player but sure is in multiplayer.
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