I’m completely speechless. This looks so terrible I thought it was a joke, but apparently Nvidia released these demos to impress people. DLSS 5 runs the entire game through an AI filter, making every character look like it’s running through an ultra realistic beauty filter.
The photo above is used as the promo image for the official blog post by the way. It completely ignores artistic intent and makes Grace’s face look “sexier” because apparently that’s what realism looks like now.
I wouldn’t be so baffled if this was some experimental setting they were testing, but they’re advertising this as the next gen DLSS. As in, this is their image of what the future of gaming should be. A massive F U to every artist in the industry. Well done, Nvidia.
I think the one on the right looks better.
Please don’t burn me as a heretic.
I mean, it is objectively more realistic, more detailed, handles lighting more naturally. But it’s also not the character the artist designed anymore, and is just modified at the last stage of rendering to be a generic llm ai character, by your gfx card. I don’t think we need our gfx cards deciding whether or not the protagonist is wearing red lipstick and rouge.