Nvidia's New DLSS 3.5 Offers Visual Upgrades But Widens Divide With Rivals

Nvidia's new DLSS 3.5 with Ray Reconstruction offers improved image quality and performance in games like Cyberpunk 2077.
Ray Reconstruction uses AI to denoise and reconstruct ray traced visuals for more detail.
But it requires Nvidia RTX GPUs, widening the gap with AMD and Intel.
This could limit competition, with more proprietary tech locking out other GPUs.
Nvidia is pushing graphics forward, but at the potential cost of choice for consumers.

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Posted 9/21/2023, 1:00:21 PM