Which was what this tech was supposed to be for when it was first pitched to gamers, a tool to help extend the usable life of a GPU.
Not we know now that’s not how the tech is being used and especially for Nvidia, that not how this is used and marketed at this point and it would seem that developers are just expecting upscaling to fill in the gap for not doing a proper job to being with.
ETA, also don’t forget that it’s not just upscaling, Nvidia are pushing fake frames as the standard too in their marketing and optimization push.
It’s very unfortunate that all of this shiny new tech is often only present on the latest GPUs, this is a good exception to something that looks like a forever rule.
I understand there were big changes between RDNA 3 and 4, but if you look at GCN and it’s support thru the generations this trend still seems greedy as hell.
As an example of how this tech can be useful: sometimes, games just hitch for a quick second. Can be any number of reasons why. Even on a ‘perfect’ system, it can happen. Such is the case with my PC and emulating android to play Destiny Rising. No matter what, it just likes to hitch occasionally. By using Lossless Scaling’s frame generation, it’s buttery smooth. I don’t notice any input lag (base FPS is 60) so everything’s all good.
I also use Lossless Scaling on my Lenovo Legion Go a lot. Just helps things look that much better.
No matter how optimized a game is, there will be someone with hardware that can barely run it.
For those people, having access to upscaling in order to gain performance is a plus.
Which was what this tech was supposed to be for when it was first pitched to gamers, a tool to help extend the usable life of a GPU.
Not we know now that’s not how the tech is being used and especially for Nvidia, that not how this is used and marketed at this point and it would seem that developers are just expecting upscaling to fill in the gap for not doing a proper job to being with.
ETA, also don’t forget that it’s not just upscaling, Nvidia are pushing fake frames as the standard too in their marketing and optimization push.
It’s very unfortunate that all of this shiny new tech is often only present on the latest GPUs, this is a good exception to something that looks like a forever rule.
I understand there were big changes between RDNA 3 and 4, but if you look at GCN and it’s support thru the generations this trend still seems greedy as hell.
As an example of how this tech can be useful: sometimes, games just hitch for a quick second. Can be any number of reasons why. Even on a ‘perfect’ system, it can happen. Such is the case with my PC and emulating android to play Destiny Rising. No matter what, it just likes to hitch occasionally. By using Lossless Scaling’s frame generation, it’s buttery smooth. I don’t notice any input lag (base FPS is 60) so everything’s all good.
I also use Lossless Scaling on my Lenovo Legion Go a lot. Just helps things look that much better.