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Re:Neural Supersampling for Real-Time Rendering by cma on Saturday July 04, 2020 @07:25AM (#23731574)
> However Nvidia are treating DLSS as their secret sauce and not publishing any details

https://developer.nvidia.com/gtc/2020/video/s22698

Re:Neural Supersampling for Real-Time Rendering by jsheard on Saturday July 04, 2020 @07:54AM (#23731697)
There are no real details in that presentation, they explain what input data DLSS needs, and demonstrate the outputs it can produce, but gloss over how it actually gets there.

From the inputs you can glean that DLSS is using temporal integration but that's hardly a new idea, the novel part is in how it performs the integration and Nvidia isn't sharing that.

Re:Neural Supersampling for Real-Time Rendering by cma on Saturday July 04, 2020 @07:53PM (#23735707)
It is using TAA-upsampling and I think the only DL part is replacing the neighborhood clamping filter with a trained function.

You can look at the tradeoffs of neighborhood clamping/clipping here:

https://de45xmedrsdbp.cloudfront.net/Resources/files/Tempora...

Those slides were before TAA upsampling was added, but the issues are similar once it is in place too. Unreal Engine already has TAA upsampling, but has to fight against the issues mentioned in the Nvidia presentation.

Nvidia trained it for specific upsampling multiples, so the main functional difference with existing TAA upsampling is it can't do continuous base-resolution changes.

Re:Neural Supersampling for Real-Time Rendering by Jasper_ on Saturday July 04, 2020 @10:31AM (#23732436)
It's basically just a good TAA and the tensor cores are basically used as a poor man's Lanczos. The tensor cores are used for obfuscation, and to make sure it doesn't run on AMD. Very little about DLSS 2.0 is "DL".
Re:Neural Supersampling for Real-Time Rendering by bcatanzaro on Saturday July 04, 2020 @04:37PM (#23734761)
This is inaccurate.
Re:Neural Supersampling for Real-Time Rendering by david-gpu on Saturday July 04, 2020 @05:15PM (#23734967)
Please be aware that the parent is Brian Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVidia, who overviews the development of DLSS among many other things.

If he says that the GP is inaccurate, trust him.

Hi, Brian!