Only turn on DLSS in games that support it. That’s why DLSS is so good at increasing frame rates in compatible games. Unlike traditional anti-aliasing and scaling or sampling, DLSS has almost no computational cost as all the calculations are done on the primary hardware level and in the background. In extreme cases, DLSS basically works like SLI, except instead of adding a second card at great financial cost you get double the performance thanks to virtualized AI power without any extra hardware. If you’re a PC gamer, DLSS boosts the value of your graphics card and essentially increases graphics processing power through virtualization. DLSS works on the hardware level through so-called Tensor cores on NVIDIA graphics cards, employing AI or deep machine learning to optimize the performance of any DLSS-enabled game.

Why is DLSS so important? Because it very effectively provides an all-in-one replacement for computationally costly processes such as anti-aliasing and up/down scaling, and theoretically renders resolution almost irrelevant, pun most definitely intended. Developed by NVIDIA and increasingly prominent since the release of the GeForce RTX 20 series, DLSS has entered its latest iteration with the arrival of GeForce RTX 30 series models like the RTX 3090, RTX 3080, and RTX 3070. One of the most exciting developments for PC gamers in recent years is deep learning super sampling, or DLSS.

4k on a 1080p monitor