The new transformer model shows night and day improvements.
With the arrival of the new RTX 50-series line of graphics cards, Nvidia has released DLSS 4.
To what extent is quality improved?
The idea is simple: for ray tracing, hardware constraints mean we can’t trace unlimited rays.
With the CNN model, ray reconstruction even had problems resolving straight lines - not an issue now.
The last - and arguably biggest - improvement with the transformer model comes from a heavy decrease in ghosting.
Now, the CNN model had the propensity ghost in all games.
While the improvement is huge, there are still some issues I’d like to see addressed.
For example, glass reflections look much the same.
Beyond that, there are tworegressionsI have found in my testing.
One of them can be found inAlan Wake 2, specifically with the TV screens in the game.
This does not happen with the old CNN model.
Performance only starts becoming very important when going down to Ampere and Turing cards, based on my testing.
Unfortunately, reducing output resolution does not really seem to help.
In summary, the transformer model has massively increased image quality in nearly all the core areas I tested.
There is far less ghosting, more coherent detail, and no stylisation.
