Is DLSS ray tracing?

Ray tracing is all about enhancing the visual reality of a scene using computationally intensive algorithms on specific blocks of silicon, where Deep Learning Super Sampling is purely about using other blocks of silicon to speed up performance while making a scene look almost as good as normal.
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Can you use DLSS and ray tracing?

The number of games with ray tracing and/or Nvidia DLSS support continues to tick upwards. Hitman 3 recently added both, balancing out some very pretty (if hardware-hungry) ray-traced reflection effects with the performance massaging power of DLSS upscaling.
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Can you use DLSS without ray tracing?

As you can also use DLSS without ray tracing, the more accurate exploration is DLSS without ray tracing versus DLSS with ray tracing, because we don't really see why you'd run at a native resolution in this game.
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Is Nvidia DLSS RTX only?

DLSS is only available with RTX graphics cards, but AMD today released its own version of the technology, AMD Fidelity FX Super Resolution (AMD FSR). FSR is GPU agnostic, meaning it will work on Nvidia and even Intel GPUs that have the necessary hardware features.
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What RTX has DLSS?

New DLSS Announcements And Integrations

GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs were unveiled. Featuring 2nd Generation Ray Tracing Cores, and 3rd Generation Tensor Cores, GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs make RTX and DLSS-enhanced games run even faster.
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Does DLSS improve FPS?

Instead of rendering at native 4K and hoping to stick around 50 fps to 60 fps, gamers can render at 1080p or 1440p and use DLSS to fill in the missing information. The result is higher frame rates without a noticeable loss in image quality. DLSS is improving all the time, too.
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Does DLSS reduce quality?

In some cases, DLSS can negatively impact the visual quality, particularly in video games where DLSS has not been updated to version 2.0. Still, it is important to note that all games from this point forward will support version 2.0 and up.
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Does GTX have ray tracing?

Due to its lack of dedicated hardware for ray tracing, the GTX cards can only offer basic ray-tracing effects. The shader cores handle the ray-tracing calculations, and this additional workload for the shader cores will affect the GPU's performance.
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Does RTX 2080 have DLSS?

Right now, DLSS is only available on Nvidia RTX graphics cards, including both the 20-Series and 30-Series.
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Does DLSS lower GPU usage?

DLSS will lower the GPU load even more, but this will hardly affect the FPS at all. DLSS would help a lot if you were faced with a GPU limit. If you want to increase your FPS, there are a few things you can do, but don't expect miracles. You could make certain ingame settings to reduce the load on the CPU.
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Does a 3080 have ray tracing?

GeForce RTX 30 Series has 2nd generation RT Cores for maximum ray tracing performance.
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Is DLSS fixed in warzone?

Call of Duty: Warzone developers Raven Software have confirmed they have deployed a fix for an issue with Nvidia's DLSS settings that was making players' aim inaccurate. Warzone on PC is a dream for those who want complete control over how their game looks.
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Does RTX mean ray tracing?

Nvidia RTX enables real-time ray tracing. Historically, ray tracing had been reserved to non-real time applications (like CGI in visual effects for movies and in photorealistic renderings), with video games having to rely on direct lighting and precalculated indirect contribution for their rendering.
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How do I turn on my DLSS ray tracing?

When a game supports DLSS, it's very easy to enable the option. Provided your NVIDIA drivers are up to date in GeForce Experience, you can just hop into your game, head to the options menu, and look for the graphics settings. You should find a switch for DLSS that you can flip on.
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Is DLSS CPU intensive?

DLSS lowers the demand on your GPU, so if you where gpu bottlenecked cpu usage will normally go up. This is normal. It's still only a 6 core cpu, it could easily be limiting a 3080, prob even so if it was a 3070.
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Should I use DLSS at 1440p?

Probably the best bet is to use the DLSS setting that retains the most quality, not the most FPS. It depends on the implementation and the game, but there are times when DLSS produces a cleaner look than the native resolution image it's outputting to.
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Does GTA 5 support DLSS?

Does it exist, and how to enable it? it does not.
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Do I need DLSS for 1080p?

Its just what it is. Saying DLSS doesn't work for 1080p, is like saying a lower resolution image has less clarity than a higher resolution...Duh. And in some instances, on certain textures or objects, the DLSS image can be reconstructed better than the actual native resolution image.
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Is DLSS better than native?

We'd normally suggest using DLSS as it's sharper than both native res and FSR. However, these shimmering issues can be really distracting, even in Quality Mode. Performance-wise, DLSS offers a 20-25% performance improvement. This is lower than what we've seen in other games.
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Can a 1660 TI use DLSS?

However, there's no support for ray tracing or DLSS here, with much of the focus being on keeping the 1660 Ti cheap and efficient rather than squeezing in more features.
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Can a 1660 TI ray trace?

1660 Ti: possible thanks to an NVIDIA driver update

Since the latest driver update from NVIDIA, you can activate ray tracing on the GTX series video cards. This means you can update the GTX 1660 Ti as well.
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Does 1080 TI have ray tracing?

The 1080 Ti is a decent card for getting a look at what ray tracing can do, but it's not the best card out there for actually experiencing it in a fluid, playable fashion.
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Is Nvidia DLSS bad?

DLSS is known for cleaning up edges better than most other anti-aliasing approaches out there, so while it's not exactly surprising to see this result, it still feels a bit like magic when the game not only runs faster but manages to look better than a native render at the same time.
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Which DLSS mode is best?

DLSS mode. With DLSS 2, you can also choose between three image quality modes—Quality, Performance and Ultra Performance. The Quality mode offers higher image quality than the Performance mode. The Performance mode offers a higher performance than the Quality mode.
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