DLSS 4 on Nvidia RTX 5080 First Look: Super Res + Multi Frame-Gen on Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive!
24,152Nvidia unveiled the RTX 50-series range of GPUs at CES 2025, but we had the chance to take a quick look at DLSS 4 running on an RTX 5080 over the preceding holiday break. Here's a look at DLSS 4 super resolution and ray reconstruction improvements stacked up against the existing technology, plus a look at the new Frame-Gen 3x and 4x options and some frame-rate, consistency and latency comparisons.
A few notes: Super resolution and ray reconstruction comparisons taken with frame generation disabled and with CP2077 post-process features (chromatic aberration, film grain, motion blur etc) disabled on RT Overdrive mode. All b-roll uses frame-gen 3x, RT Overdrive mode but again with post-process features disabled for improved clarity. Frame-rate clips captured on RT Overdrive but with film grain disabled for better image quality on YouTube.
More thoughts on DLSS 4 in this Eurogamer article: https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2025-hands-on-with-dlss-4-on-nvidias-new-geforce-rtx-5080
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00:00 Introduction
02:06 Capturing DLSS 4 Multi Frame-Gen: It's Tricky
03:17 Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction: The Transformer Model
04:32 Transformer Model vs Prior CNN Model
07:06 DLSS 4 Multi Frame-Gen Introduction
07:39 Frame-Gen 2x, 3x, 4x Frame-Rate Improvements
08:30 RTX 4080 Super Frame-Gen 2x vs RTX 5080 Frame-Gen 4x
08:55 DLSS 4 Multi Frame-Gen: Frame-Pacing And Latency
12:05 DLSS 4 Features for RTX 20, 30, 40 and 50 Series GPUs
12:42 DLSS 4 on RTX 5080: First Look Summary
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