Digital Foundry: DLSS 2.2 improves image quality and has less ghosting – Gaming – News

That vendor lock in is the ONLY way this technique works. I prefer the best and not a half-baked solution because that’s all that’s possible with an open standard.

I prefer that AMD also supports DLSS YES but that is realistic NO. Even if nvidia were to give away licenses for free, AMD would still have to build in hardware to implement this technology. Even then, the question is whether this is even possible on AMD’s architecture without other far-reaching implications for the functioning of the GPU.

And no, as consumers, we are BETTER off in the long run. Without nvidia, we wouldn’t have as much of what we have today.

Physx, Gsync, hairworks, ultra low latency modes, Sharpening filters, DLSS, new AA methods, fine shadows and probably much more.

Without Nvidia, we would NEVER have had the pushback from AMD with an open feature. So nvidia’s closed source variants have given us innovation and progression in gaming that otherwise wouldn’t have come.

And as far as I’m concerned, some of the nvidia variants are still superior like Gsync. Would I pay extra for that NOPE but it is better than the open implementation.

So 20 years of closed standards from Nvidia has brought us a lot of tech and innovation. Was some of this innovation possible without vendor lock? YES but also partly not because it needed hardware support.

Can AMD create a Nvenc competitor without vendor lock? Surely. Can that become an open standard? Probably not because you really need hardware for that and amd hardware is not guaranteed to work on intel and nvidia gpu designs.

Can FSR completely replace DLSS? Unlikely you can’t compare the tech because the operation is drastically different and therefore it works better.

Can AMD make an alternative to RTX voice and the streaming software? YEP it has already been proven that it works on non rtx cards and is therefore mainly software. But you do have to do it.

All in all I am happy with Nvidia and what they have brought us over the past decades despite the vendor lock in sometimes and so price premium in general is worth it.
If I can now choose between a 6800XT for 700 or an RTX 3080 for 800, I choose the 3080 without blinking, despite the 6 GB less GPU memory. Those features are worth 100 to me. Nvenc is just great and DLSS is clearly better and also rtx voice is a game changer at the moment and also the Ray trace performance is better. I also have a better feeling with Nvidia’s software than AMD’s (media pc downstairs has and AMD card).
All in all worth 100 more to me. At more, but at 200 more, I would have to seriously think about whether those features are worth the compromises.
Especially Nvenc then becomes a serious thing because it is so much better that streaming is simply not a choice unless I would replace my system for a 16 core because x264 just eats way too much cpu and kills my gaming performance.

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