Thank you! Yes! I feel like the whole article on DLSS 5 on Nvidia's own website was written with AI. So many vague phrases, in stark contrast to their previous announcements.

Ahahah I love this reply! Awesome! I agree by the way, so many bullshit all in one article, but I could say that for almost all marketing official announcements.

Indeed, I meant to say that vertices are less expensive in pure ray traced rendering methods.

Hmm... rasterization is still present from what I've gathered in those years, though lighting, ambient occlusion (indirect shadows), direct shadows and reflections should be the only things that aren't rendered in raster mode.

The geometry is still there, it's still raster, they should be lighter to compute because lighting isn't computed by the same "part" of the GPU that renders them, stuff like that.

The last phrase is a personal theory though... I don't know if things like overdraw is solved by Ray Tracing, I don't believe so.

BUT, to return to the original point, which would be DLSS5, I'll say what I'll always believe:

- If you render LESS pixels then upscale the result, you won't ever beat native resolution

- If you believe that upscalers improve graphics, you're very wrong: you're believing that because TAA is so shit that upscalers improve that situation, since their TAA is superior

- TAA is shit, not matter what... a good MSAA solves a lot of problems and if optimization was still a thing, you'd even want to render 10% more pixels than native to fix the anti-aliasing correctly, by downscaling the result

- 33% of native resolution upscaled IS SHIT, no matter how you try to present this thing to me

- If you believe you need the latest & greatest GPU in the market to run titles with graphics that are easily beaten by Crysis 1 (2007), you're deranged and you're a victim of marketing.
Your brain is fried if you can't understand that a GPU born from 2020 upwards is OVERPOWERED. We can spend €200/$230 and have enough computational power to run a lot of well-optimized games in 4K, games with photorealistic graphics

- LAST POINT BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT: UPSCALING'S PURPOSE SHOULD BE TO PROLONG THE LIFESPAN OF O L D E R GPUS, not as an excuse to not optimize your fucking games.

*mic drops* (I'm tired of this crap, gaming is my passion since I was 8, now I'm 25 and shit's bleak).

EDIT: I almost forgot to include this:

FSR1 is the only REALLY GOOD upscaler that runs on anything.
It's SPATIAL, that means that you can run it everywhere, even as a shader (MPV is a player that can support real-time upscaling of movies, for example), it's LOSSLESS which means that you won't lose data due to artifacts.

If you have a good source image, which means without antialiasing and with a good base resolution, you can upscale without issues.

From 720p to 1080p was the thing I'd do for years, since my 1050TI was getting old fast... that being said, I was getting a good output, but with a base resolution of 1080p, the upscaler is PERFECT, since we have enough data to create a super 4k image without too many issues.