Which upscaler is the best?

[Jazman2k]

I have no idea what the different upscalers do, or which gives best performance. TAA, TSR, DLSS, DLAA, XESS etc.

I have Nvidia card so I think DLSS or DLAA? What is the difference? Which one gives best performance?

[本夹明SPenguin]

Image quality wise, the "best" seems to be TSR. As it seems to be native resolution and it looks pretty damn sharp. But it's also the most expensive solution.

DLAA is also native resolution, so you can compare DLAA with TSR for yourself.

DLSS is using lower internal resolution.

[Tryyton]

everything the above said is correct

but for Nvidia, obviously DLSS (or without it and TSR/TAA).
your gpu "decides" if you need dlss or not. well, it also depends on the game and the in-game settings.

[K A Y S A]

DLSS is the best solution on Nvidia. DLAA is just DLSS but at native resolution, so you get the great anti aliasing from DLSS without lowering the resolution. DLSS Quality almost as good as DLAA, but runs significantly better because it renders at a lower resolution.

[Tryyton]

Originally posted by K A Y S A:

DLSS is the best solution on Nvidia. DLAA is just DLSS but at native resolution, so you get the great anti aliasing from DLSS without lowering the resolution. DLSS Quality almost as good as DLAA, but runs significantly better because it renders at a lower resolution.

that answered/explained the indepth details!

[Cyphid01]

If you sold your soul to the Evil Empire™ then as the others wrote DLSS is your best bet. XeSS serves me fine, a bit better than FSR since it's still on version 2.2. I was hoping it would include FSR 3 to witness it in a real game.

[MarcoCarlo]

DLSS on ‘Quality’ setting looks as good to me as DLAA but with much better performance.

[The Fabulous Slayer]

IMO, if you resort to upscalers - DLSS is the best one if you have RTX card.

[CLARENCE]

If you are playing 2560x1440, use DLSS quality. (Internal res is upscaled from 960p)

If you are playing 3840x2160, use DLSS performance. (Internal res is upscaled from 1080p)

DLAA does offer the best image quality since it keeps the native resolution, however, at the cost of slightly more performance than DLSS.

I recommend NOT using DLAA and instead use DLDSR + DLSS, especially if you're monitor is not native 4K it will look better than DLAA + native 4k.

[Toegewyde]

Use DLAA. If it perform bad use Dlss, others inferior.

[lauruswolfe]

so many acronyms i'm getting a brain tumor it's like listening to the security guard in the hospital

[JDelwynn]

If Nvidia use DLAA if you have a powerful card, DLSS if not. Quality for 1080p, Balanced for 1440p and performance for 4k. If not NVIDIA, then use XeSS, especially for Intel cards. FSR is the worst one and not worth it.

[Rucola-Joe]

TSR has its advantages over DLSS in this game: There is way less shimmering with TSR on the wet streets of Detroid compared to DLSS, FSR and XeSS. TSR at 55-60 % resolution scale looks comparable to DLSS balanced (minus the shimmering) and results in about the same performance numbers for me at 1440p.

I'd say the rest of the image is slightly better (more stable) with DLSS but the shimmering on the streets is very pronounced and distracting, thus I recommend giving TSR a go.

[Tryyton]

Originally posted by Rucola-Joe:

TSR has its advantages over DLSS in this game: There is way less shimmering with TSR on the wet streets of Detroid compared to DLSS, FSR and XeSS. TSR at 55-60 % resolution scale looks comparable to DLSS balanced (minus the shimmering) and results in about the same performance numbers for me at 1440p.

I'd say the rest of the image is slightly better (more stable) with DLSS but the shimmering on the streets is very pronounced and distracting, thus I recommend giving TSR a go.

most will have to use dlss/fsr though, because you need more power for tsr with the same settings for the rest. with dlss quality i get 55-80 fps, with tsr it directly drops to appr. 40. on a 2070.

will tryy it again with lower resolution scale, but definitely not lower than 80%, my monitor is too big and i have standards.

[Johnnius]

I'm one to usually say dlss straight away but in this game tsr at 100% looks better than even dlaa in my opinion.

[Obsessive Power]

Normally I'd go with DLSS, but in this game I'm using TSR. The reason being that DLSS has real issues with wet roads. They shimmer/flicker like crazy with DLSS no matter what resolution or quality setting. TSR does not seem to flicker at all. I've not tried DLAA.