Fsr or dlss put very simple please?

[Chaotic]

Can someone please, for the love of god, just tell me which I should use on a stock rtx 2070 super like im a child because I dont understand any of the wall of text technobabble in the comparisons. I know resolution and low, medium, high and thats it. CP2077 defaults to FSR in my settings but I have a nvidia card so im confused. I play on 1080 res because I dont like my card sounding like a jet engine.

[Vellari]

DLSS should perform better and look better too for NVidia GPU's (duh).

[A TIN OF JAR]

DLSS = Nvidia
FSR = AMD (But you can use FSR on Nvidia too)

I have an AMD card, I applied an overclock with a slight under-volt I also created a custom fan profile, my GPU does not even pass 75c while playing at 1440p most settings high, FSR quality with RT off.

[envirovore]

Using a Nvidia GPU, in order of what you should use for upscaling options according to quality:

DLSS if available - Nvidia's solution, will provide best/most stable image.
If for some reason DLSS is not available then:
XeSS - Intel's solution, works on NV GPUs in software mode. Not quite as good as DLSS, typically better quality than FSR 2.1 or lower).
FSR - AMD's solution, works on NV GPUs. Versions 2.1 and below will tend to have some clarity issues.

There is also a mod available now that will force inject FSR Frame Gen in place of DLSS Frame Gen which will allow FSR Frame Gen to be used on any RTX GPU for perceived performance boost.

[catch22atplay]

Can't really be explained without the wall of texts if you want optimal settings. https://gpuopen.com/fidelityfx-superresolution-2/ try that

[Chaotic]

Thank you for the answers. It was really confusing me because I assumed the game, given how sophisticated they have become, would have detected I have a nvidia card and would default to dlss but it doesn't. Granted, its a couple gens old 2070 super so it made me wonder, given there are different gens of dlss and fsr (1, 2, 3 etc.), one would be better or more stable etc.

[envirovore]

Originally posted by Chaotic:

Thank you for the answers. It was really confusing me because I assumed the game, given how sophisticated they have become, would have detected I have a nvidia card and would default to dlss but it doesn't. Granted, its a couple gens old 2070 super so it made me wonder, given there are different gens of dlss and fsr (1, 2, 3 etc.), one would be better or more stable etc.

Fwiw nVidias naming didn't help:

DLSS Super Resolution (DLSS 2.x+ dlss.dll) supported on all RTX GPUs.

DLSS Frame Generation (DLSS 3, dlssg.dll) supported on Ada Lovelace (4000 series) only due to advancements in OFA hardware over Turing and Ampere generations and the introduction of SER.

DLSS Ray Reconstruction (DLSS 3.5, dlssd.dll) supported on all RTX GPUs as it works on the same hardware as DLSS Super Resolution (iirc the two were tied together in that SR had to be enabled to use RR, not sure if that's still default behavior anymore though).

[Chaotic]

Originally posted by envirovore:

Originally posted by Chaotic:

Thank you for the answers. It was really confusing me because I assumed the game, given how sophisticated they have become, would have detected I have a nvidia card and would default to dlss but it doesn't. Granted, its a couple gens old 2070 super so it made me wonder, given there are different gens of dlss and fsr (1, 2, 3 etc.), one would be better or more stable etc.

Fwiw nVidias naming didn't help:

DLSS Super Resolution (DLSS 2.x+ dlss.dll) supported on all RTX GPUs.

DLSS Frame Generation (DLSS 3, dlssg.dll) supported on Ada Lovelace (4000 series) only due to advancements in OFA hardware over Turing and Ampere generations and the introduction of SER.

DLSS Ray Reconstruction (DLSS 3.5, dlssd.dll) supported on all RTX GPUs as it works on the same hardware as DLSS Super Resolution (iirc the two were tied together in that SR had to be enabled to use RR, not sure if that's still default behavior anymore though).

Thanks for clearing that up. That was confusing me as well. Since I have a 2xxx series, it's the first in the RTX family that can even use dlss. One would assume it could only run the first gen version of dlss and normally the first in anything, runs like crap.

[envirovore]

Originally posted by Chaotic:

Originally posted by envirovore:

Fwiw nVidias naming didn't help:

DLSS Super Resolution (DLSS 2.x+ dlss.dll) supported on all RTX GPUs.

DLSS Frame Generation (DLSS 3, dlssg.dll) supported on Ada Lovelace (4000 series) only due to advancements in OFA hardware over Turing and Ampere generations and the introduction of SER.

DLSS Ray Reconstruction (DLSS 3.5, dlssd.dll) supported on all RTX GPUs as it works on the same hardware as DLSS Super Resolution (iirc the two were tied together in that SR had to be enabled to use RR, not sure if that's still default behavior anymore though).

Thanks for clearing that up. That was confusing me as well. Since I have a 2xxx series, it's the first in the RTX family that can even use dlss. One would assume it could only run the first gen version of dlss and normally the first in anything, runs like crap.

Welcome.
There is a mod around now that will allow users of 2000 and 3000 series GPUs to inject AMD FSR Frame Gen into any game that supports DLSS Frame Gen, thereby allowing NV users to use AMD's software based Frame Gen solution in place of DLSS Frame Gen, if you want to give it a try.

https://www.nexusmods.com/site/mods/738

As long as you can maintain 30 'base' fps this should visually boost framerate, but may introduce input latency and have some visual stability/clarity issues.

[Equilibrium]

Dlss looks generally better, so i tend to use that solution. Mix in frame generation from amd, you got a option that gives a nice performance boost, with nvidias dlss. Its not perfect, but considering performance boost and its free and a easy "cheat" to install. Kinda is perfect in a normal world..

[A TIN OF JAR]

Originally posted by Equilibrium:

Dlss looks generally better, so i tend to use that solution. Mix in frame generation from amd, you got a option that gives a nice performance boost, with nvidias dlss. Its not perfect, but considering performance boost and its free and a easy "cheat" to install. Kinda is perfect in a normal world..

At 1440p with FSR set to quality, frame gen on, RT off and most settings high I get around 180~ fps with my RX 6750 XT.