Upscaling News and Articles

A Review of Nvidia's DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation

FEATURE By Tim Schiesser, January 28, 2025, 5:34 AM TechSpot AI

Multi Frame Generation is one of the standout features in DLSS 4 and the new Nvidia RTX 50 series GPUs. This review dives into its performance, image quality, and whether it's truly worth upgrading for.

Download of the Week Gaming

This free utility lets you update DLSS, FSR, and XeSS upscaling DLLs in one click

DLSS Swapper lets you download, manage, and swap DLL files to upgrade or downgrade DLSS versions without requiring a game update. Starting with version 1.1, the tool also supports AMD FSR and Intel XeSS.

By Ivan Franco, January 27, 2025, 4:53 PM

Gaming Software

AMD FSR 4 integration could be a simple drop-in upgrade for current FSR 3.1 games

A simple DLL swap and you're done

By Zo Ahmed, January 27, 2025, 10:18 AM 10 comments

Gaming Hardware

Assassin's Creed Shadows' final PC specs suggest ray tracing and upscaling are the new standard

The use of ray tracing is not optional

What just happened? You might not care much about ray tracing, but video game makers certainly do. The final PC requirements for Assassin's Creed Shadows have arrived, and, much like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, turning off ray tracing effects isn't an option. Also, the given resolutions are specified as "using dynamic resolution and upscaling."

Full story By Rob Thubron, January 24, 2025, 6:14 AM 22 comments

Gaming Software

Nvidia says over 80% of GeForce RTX GPU owners use DLSS

Is the age of native rendering coming to an end?

By Daniel Sims, January 16, 2025, 8:41 PM 79 comments

Gaming Hardware

Nvidia says frame generation and upscaling will require us to rethink benchmarks

New rendering techniques complicate image quality, latency, and frame rate analysis

By Daniel Sims, January 16, 2025, 6:17 AM 52 comments

Gaming Software

AMD FSR 4 upscaling shows much improved image quality, fewer artifacts, but it will be exclusive to newer GPUs

Meanwhile DLSS 4 will also improve image quality, but across all RTX series GPUs

By Daniel Sims, January 9, 2025, 9:24 PM 26 comments

Gaming Software

Early DLSS 4 test showcases cleaner images and multiplied framerates

A relatively small latency penalty and the biggest upscaling improvement in years

By Daniel Sims, January 9, 2025, 8:39 AM 38 comments

Hardware Gaming

AMD reveals RDNA 4 architecture, Radeon RX 9070 GPUs, and Ryzen 9000 X3D CPUs

FSR 4 upgrades, AI accelerators, and RDNA 4 ray tracing improvements soft-launched for now

What just happened? The big surprise out of CES 2025 is that AMD hasn't fully launched new RDNA 4 GPUs at the show, instead deciding to merely "preview" the new architecture and a couple of graphics card models. As of writing, AMD has officially announced the RDNA 4 graphics architecture, Radeon RX 9070 series of GPUs, ML-powered FSR 4 upscaling, and new Ryzen 9000 X3D desktop CPUs. We've got all the information for you here, plus a few thoughts on what AMD has shown off so far.

Full story By Tim Schiesser, January 6, 2025, 2:45 PM 29 comments

Hardware Gaming

Latest Nvidia RTX 5080 leaks hint at DLSS 4 and GDDR7 ahead of CES unveiling

New GPUs, new upscaling tech

By Rob Thubron, January 3, 2025, 10:28 AM 37 comments

Gaming Hardware

Nintendo Switch 2 alleged motherboard leaks, patent confirms DLSS upscaling-like tech

An official reveal is expected as soon as this month

By Daniel Sims, January 2, 2025, 6:20 PM 9 comments

Software Download of the Week

Topaz Photo AI 3.4 improves text recognition, super focus

Topaz Photo upscaling app improves its Preserve Text enhancement feature to automatically run on areas of an image where text has been detected. Super Focus and Crop tools have also been upgraded.

By Erik Orejuela, December 19, 2024, 11:13 AM

Hardware Software

Intel XeSS 2 arrives alongside new Battlemage GPUs with frame generation and low-latency mode

Intel takes on DLSS 3 and FSR 3 innovations

By Tim Schiesser, December 3, 2024, 1:01 PM

Software Gaming

AMD aims to catch up to Nvidia's DLSS with "neural supersampling"

The company wants to handle upscaling and denoising with a single AI model

By Zo Ahmed, November 3, 2024, 8:22 AM 25 comments

Software Microsoft

Microsoft Photos app gets AI super resolution upscaling in Windows Insider build

Free upscaling software for Windows users, but only if you run a Snapdragon Copilot+ PC

By Daniel Sims, October 23, 2024, 10:07 PM

God of War Ragnarök GPU Benchmark: 1080p, 1440p, and 4K Tested

FEATURE By Steven Walton, September 25, 2024, 6:01 AM TechSpot Gaming

God of War Ragnarök finally arrives on PC after two years as a PlayStation exclusive. It still looks stunning and plays really well, with support for DLSS 3, FSR 3.1, and XeSS 1.3.

Gaming Hardware

Nvidia CEO: "We can't do computer graphics anymore without artificial intelligence"

Jensen Huang champions AI upscaling in gaming, but players fear a hardware divide

In context: Upscaling tech like Nvidia's DLSS can enhance lower-resolution images and improve image quality while achieving higher frame rates. However, some gamers are concerned that this technology might become a requirement for good performance – a valid fear, even though only a few games currently list system requirements that include upscaling. As the industry continues to evolve, how developers address these concerns remains to be seen.

Full story By Skye Jacobs, September 15, 2024, 10:23 AM 35 comments

Gaming AI

AMD FSR 4 will transition to pure AI upscaling, following DLSS and XeSS

Company is also discussing how to maximize gaming handhelds' battery life

By Daniel Sims, September 14, 2024, 12:07 PM

Hardware Gaming

AMD claims new frame generation tech can boost Cyberpunk 2077 performance by up to 78%

A free shot in the arm for framerates

By Zo Ahmed, September 12, 2024, 12:10 PM 9 comments

Download of the Week Gaming

DLSS Updater is a free utility that updates all your games to the latest DLSS version

DLSS Updater automatically scans your installed games and updates them to the latest Nvidia DLSS DLL version available. It supports games installed via Steam, Epic store, Ubisoft, GOG, EA and Battle.net.

By Ivan Franco, August 30, 2024, 3:04 PM

Gaming Hardware

Ubisoft reveals Star Wars Outlaws PC requirements, all listed using upscaling

Is "designed with upscaling in mind" becoming the norm?

By Rob Thubron, August 1, 2024, 9:26 AM 30 comments

Software Download of the Week

AMD launches Amuse: a local AI image generator featuring Stable Diffusion and XDNA Super Resolution

Amuse is an AI image generator that runs locally on your PC and employs AMD XDNA Super Resolution technology to upscale images to twice the resolution compared to Stable Diffusion. It currently runs only on modern AMD hardware.

By Ivan Franco, July 29, 2024, 3:47 PM

Mobile Gaming

Arm shows off its own ASR upscaler tech optimized for mobile devices, based on AMD's FSR 2

Power consumption is also reduced

By Shawn Knight, July 11, 2024, 3:28 PM

The Ultimate Upscaling Showdown: FSR 3.1 vs DLSS 3.7 vs XeSS 1.3

FEATURE By Tim Schiesser, July 8, 2024, 6:11 AM TechSpot Gaming

Upscaling technologies continue to improve every year, and today we'll be looking at five games updated to use AMD FSR 3.1 to compare against the latest in Nvidia DLSS 3.7 and Intel XeSS 1.3.

Software Gaming

AMD's FSR 3.1 upscaling tech arrives in five games, many more on the way

Support will soon roll out for sixty titles

By Zo Ahmed, June 28, 2024, 9:16 AM 10 comments