Everyone Hates DLSS 5, Here's Our Thoughts

About this episode

The episode discusses Nvidia's DLSS 5 reveal and shares impressions on Crimson Desert.

Episode 101: What are our thoughts on Nvidia's DLSS 5 reveal? Time to chat about that, along with Crimson Desert, which we've been benchmarking CHAPTERS 00:00 - Intro 00:31 - Our Initial Thoughts on DLSS 5 08:14 - DLSS 5's Artistic Changes 27:36 - Possible Technical Challenges 42:07 - The Reaction to DLSS 5 49:24 - Crimson Desert Impressions 1:08:03 - Final Thoughts SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Audio: https://shows.acast.com/the-hardware-unboxed-podcast Video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqT8Vb3jweH6_tj2SarErfw SUPPORT US DIRECTLY Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hardwareunboxed LINKS YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Hardwareunboxed/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HardwareUnboxed Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hardwareunboxed.bsky.social Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Hardware Unboxed

Topics covered

• Nvidia
• DLSS 5
• Crimson Desert
• video games
• benchmarking
• technology

Keywords

• DLSS 5
• Nvidia
• Crimson Desert
• benchmarking
• video games
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nvidia

Products: DLSS 5

Books & works: Crimson Desert

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