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    Reposted from beyond3d:
    https://forum.beyond3d.com/posts/2195002/

    Nioh 2 image quality analysis:

    https://imgsli.com/NDMxMTM
    On the left is a fragment of 9x SSAA "ground truth" image downsampled from 3840x2160 to 1280x720 with bicubic filtering as it doesn't add moire, aliasing and ringing like Lanczos.
    On the right is a fragment of 720p DLSS Quality image reconstructed from 853x480 to 1280x720 by accumulating and verifying samples from a large sequence of 853x640 images

    Here is another comparison:
    https://imgsli.com/NDMxMTQ

    Left one is the ground thruth 9x SSAA image again
    Right one is native 720p without any kind of AA

    And here is the third one just for fun:
    https://imgsli.com/NDMxMTA

    Left image is 70% rendering resolution (896x504) of 720p + single frame spatial upscale to 720p with Mitchell–Netravali filter + sharpening applied on top of the scaled image aka AMD's Fidelity FX + CAS or whatever it's called
    Right image is the DLSS Quality - a sequence of 853x480 images verified by NN

    It's kind of obvious which one is closer to the ground truth, but I also decided to make these fragments aligned so that I can capture some image quality metrics to verify that in more mathematical style.
    BTW, it was a huge PITA because the character on the screens above was animated and I wanted to catch DLSS in dynamic because on a static image it would have converged to SSAA in a matter of a few frames.

    Image fragments with original res and without any additional scaling:
    DLSS Quality vs 9x SSAA:
    PSNR (more is better): 35.7854
    RMSE (less is better): 1064.64
    MSE (less is better): 17.2956
    MAE (less is better): 651.178

    Native 720p No AA vs 9x SSAA
    PSNR (more is better): 32.671
    RMSE (less is better): 1523.79
    MSE (less is better): 35.4302
    MAE (less is better): 905.421


    The same image fragments, but 9х magnified:
    DLSS Quality vs 9x SSAA
    PSNR (more is better): 37.2114
    RMSE (less is better): 903.449
    MSE (less is better): 12.4547
    MAE (less is better): 561.239

    (Native) No AA vs 9x SSAA
    PSNR (more is better): 35.32
    RMSE (less is better): 1123.25
    MSE (less is better): 19.252
    MAE (less is better): 689.93

    So DLSS not only looks way more alike 9x SSAA, but it's also closer to SSAA image in terms of image metrics (less math difference between pixels).
    Though, no real surprises here since this is exactly how DLSS is supposed to work if everything is set up correctly - converge to the ground truth over time.

    I made quite a few screenshots, but, unfortunately, they all were with slightly different camera angles, so I wasn't able to perfectly align them, but in case you are wondering they are all here (including the screenshots above):
    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ANx8HURnxFjp…ZYEtf?usp=sharing
     
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    ‎The graphics chip and graphics card market shares in the fourth quarter of 2020 | 3DCenter.org‎
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    [​IMG]

    Looks like allocating production to Samsung was the right move for Ampere.
     
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    System Shock Demo and The Fabled Woods Add NVIDIA DLSS At Lightning Speed Using Unreal Engine 4 DLSS Plugin
     
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    Hut 8 Buys $30M Worth of Nvidia’s New Crypto Mining GPUs
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    ...In the company’s Q4 earnings call, Nvidia CEO Colette Kress said she expected about $50 million in total CMP sales during the new product’s first quarter this year, per CoinDesk’s prior reporting. Hut 8 filled 60% of that target in one order....
     
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    I had a theory about DLSS.

    Anyone else think it would be more lucrative, and more beneficial for the industry if Nvidia made a new Gsync module that includes a tensor core chip for processing DLSS via the monitor. Giving monitors themselves this upscaling technology. The PC renders and sends for instance a 1080p image to the screen where the monitor then uses DLSS to upscale to 4K or whatever resolution specified in the game. With more plugins coming into new game engines if the game supports it then you can enable DLSS. Even if you only have say a GTX1060 or even weaker GPU that doesn't have tensor cores for DLSS support. Like I've said before I currently don't like the look DLSS gives, but I can see its use case for lower end hardware.

    This could even be used for TV's as well to drive higher than 4K resolutions, could help the industry get closer to cheaper 8K TV's or even higher.

    I am sure this would be more financially viable for Nvidia, they would be able to sell more monitors and TV's than they would a $1500 GPU. This could become an industry standard. Not only this but it would free up a ton of GPU die space for more shaders or even more RT cores.
     

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    wouldn't that add tons of latency to have part of a gpu in your monitor ?
     
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    Yea I did think about that, like I said it was just a theory.
     
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    keep proprietary stuff to gpus.

    new switch is supposed to have it,and it's gonna be a breakthrough for handheld performance im sure.so far you're only getting 720p on old maxwell gpu.this one will get next gen lovelace gpu withh dlss support.it's gonna be night and day difference in quality.

    I just hope we're getting +7" screen options.5.5-6.2 is too small for gaming.

    well,for AIBs,absolutely.For you or me - same difference.
    I feel for amd-only partners,like sapphire powercolor and xfx,amd have been giving them scraps compared to nvidia's aibs.

    it's nothing short of amazing that nvidia can still widen the gap when they are having to use 8nm as emergency against 7nm big navi.6800xt/6900xt are killer cards,they're at the limit of what 7nm tsmc and amd brilliant gpu engineering team can do atm,and yet 3080/3090s still sell better.
     
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    proprietary stuff always ends up causing more issues, segments the market, and eventually either dies off or becomes open source. For years Nvidia blocked physX on AMD, now that is dead as CPU's and game engines have either got a better option or have incorporated it as an open feature. Hairworks is also basically dead (same with tressfx but at least this was open source), all the "gameworks" stuff is more or less long gone now and was widely criticised for bringing terrible performance as most games just tacked it on with glue and duck tape. Gsync also was locked away unless you had an Nvidia GPU and now a lot of the monitors have become "Freesync compatible" allowing for AMD GPU owners to use VRR on a Gsync display.

    the word "proprietary" to me means only one evitable thing..... a monopoly. And we seriously don't want that especially on PC. I predict DLSS will either become an open standard or merge into/with something else that everyone can use. That is, if including a DLSS module inside monitors proves to bring too much latency something I think could be solved with newer hardware.

    As for the switch pro, rumours are pointing towards a 720p 6-7" OLED display. I read also that DLSS will not be used when playing in handheld mode as the newer SoC will be more than capable of driving 720p60Hz. This would mainly be to save on battery, and then once the switch pro is docked and able to draw more consistent power from the wall DLSS will be enabled in order to drive games up towards 1440p/4K for newer TV's.

    I don't think this is a true successor to the Switch, more of a hardware revision like a PS4 Pro. Games will still have to run on the current Switch hardware as well. The Switch is only 4 years old (2017) and still selling by the truck load. I think the older model will be discontinued and we will just have the Switch Lite and the Switch Pro and then eventually a Switch Pro Lite down the road with them also fazing out the older Lite model. I doubt we see a true switch successor until at least 2023/4.
     
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    Got notification on email, Checked email, clicked on link, lol, I got Rick Rolled, Happy April Fool's day everyone, really caught me off on this one, Excellent, thanks for sharing.
     
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    I meant if you're gonna introduce a feature like dlss,it better come with a gpu not a monitor since you keep the latter for longer.don't like it - change brands.
    dlss will never become an open standard.some other type of image reconstruction might,but not this one.
    gsync compatible is for freesync monitors on nvidia cards not the other way round.you will never enable freesync on a gsync module display.
    see what I meant about putting proprietary features on monitors now?
     
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    They really took a big turd on the --60 cards this time around.
    GG nvidia keep it up and we'll all be on intel soon.
     
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