When the GeForce RTX2080Ti came out two months ago, NVIDIA and Square Enix provided the media with a special version of the Final Fantasy XV benchmark tool that supported DLSS. And today, the green team has made this special version of the benchmark tool available to everyone.
According to the teams, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070, 2080 or 2080 Ti is required to run NVIDIA DLSS and in order to enable it you’ll need to set your display resolution to 4K. In other words, there is no DLSS support for 1440p or for other resolutions, something that may disappoint some gamers. Moreover, NVIDIA Ansel is disabled when NVIDIA DLSS is enabled.
The Final Fantasy XV benchmark looks crisper and cleaner thanks to DLSS. Dithering is almost eliminated and the ghosting of moving detail is virtually nonexistent. Now while this shows the benefits of DLSS, we should point out that the TAA implementation in this particular game was awful. As such, you should not expect the same improvements in games that have implemented TAA in better ways.
Still, it’s a bit disappointing that we’ll never get the benefits of DLSS in the actual game. A few days ago, Square Enix confirmed that the PC production has been cancelled, meaning that DLSS as well as the promised modding tools will not come out.
Those interested can download this new version of the FF XV benchmark tool from here.
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First of all, this is just a “benchmark tool”, which is also unreliable as well, and apart from this, the actual game lacks proper DLSS support.
So it’s kind of pointless, in my opinion, unless it is just used for testing purpose. This benchmark tool has been criticized for the credibility of the results as well, as told by others in the gaming community. (I haven’t tried using it though)
Anyways, @TPU did some benchmark runs, and according to them DLSS did offer a 36% increase in performance.
But again, this is just a bench tool. Though they claim DLSS brings slightly better image quality than just using TAA, but this may well be “subjective” and will depend upon the end user to some degree.
But it would be nice if we can get a side by side image quality comparison from an actual in-game setting.
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I tested it and it looks better than 4K + TAA. HOWEVER, I only have a 1440p monitor. Don’t know how it looks on an actual 4K monitor.
Glad to hear that !
I think people are too hung up on the TAA part. DLSS can be used in any game regardless of AA technique. It was just what they used when pairing it in Unreal and FFXV. It’s more comparable to a downsampled picture with performance closed to 1440p (from 4K standpoint)
Obviously.
Nvidia – The Way It’s Meant To Be… Benchmarked?!
Could the introduction of DXR and DLSS with these new premium priced cards have been handled any worse than it has been and continues to be?
This whole RTX release has been a total MESS for sure !
Aside from the overheating, there’s nothing messy about it, people being ignorant and not understanding what ray tracing is is not Nvidia’s fault.
Only overheating ?
There have been reports of cards dying as well, BSODs, artifacts, glitches and memory corruption, among other things.
many cards are being RMA’d. even though it might be minority of the gaming community, but there have been issues.
we can’t overlook this.
Not many games support RTX/DLSS, and the performance hit of using ray tracing is HIGH even on 1080p/60fps, and you think it’s not a mess ? get your facts straight
Pish! Haaa is clearly an expert. The ongoing shambles is the fault of the consumer. Stating undisputable facts matters not because he’s said we’re all “ignorant” and he knows best. /s
You are ignorant, that’s merely a fact.
I’ve been working with raytracing for over a decade now, and seeing people who have no idea what the hell they are talking about judging real time ray tracing- something people in the rendering field were waiting for for decades – as a hack or a fad blows my mind.
But, they are trained like monkeys all their life to only care about resolution and fps numbers, a game could look like complete garbage, but as long as these numbers are high, the monkeys are satisfied.
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Another expert is back. Our beloved troll, @LuckyNUmber8. He is back with a new account.
Check the RTX BFV topic. He goes by this user name now: @Paul86
Yeah, and guess what’s causing all that, it’s overheating.
Ray tracing is SUPPOSED to have a big fps hit, it’s a brute force method, people not knowing that and act surprised is really stupid.
Ray tracing is for people who care about the image quality and what the game looks like, people who like d**k measuring with the resolution and fps numbers can turn it off.
I know about the perf HIT which comes with it, you MORON. Downvoted you for your stupidity.
Ray tracing is just not worth using and enabling it right now IMO, unless an idiot like you wants only high IMAGE quality, which only might be visible on specific in-game scenes, not all, and not many games have support for this feature.
Not every rtx feature is going to implemented in games though, as the recent BFV game only has “reflections”, so as to speak.
Also, don’t forget about the horrible price of these RTX cards as well. Enjoy your cinematic 1080p/30 fps image quality. Lmao.
Go to Nvidia forums, if you want some votes though.
First generation of any new tech always has a high price, if you are flipping burgers at McDonald’s and can’t afford it, don’t buy it, it’s not meant for you, crying over it and insulting the people who can won’t help you either.
History just Repeats itself at this point. It’ll be fine in the end. People need to be patient. People expect too much of things that are in their infancy. Understandable though.
Do you need the lastest windows update for this to work ? For certain reasons I don’t want to update quite yet.
I don’t think so. Just try it out, without updating Windows, and see if it works ?
Nope, you don’t need it.
A wise man turns off automatic windows updates 🙂 Not as easily done nowadays but with group policy editor it’s possible.
Yeah, I have mine turned off.
I wonder why it’s only in 4k?
Nice nice!