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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by m3kw9 on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @05:31PM (#42628476)
The fps gains are directly because of the AI compute cores, I’d say that’s a net gain but not a the traditional sense preAI.
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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by ahartmetz on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @07:36PM (#42629540)
Kind of a half gain: smoothness improved, latency same or slightly worse.

By the way, I thought these AI things served to increase resolution, not frame rate. Why doesn't it work that way?

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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by throwaway48476 on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:52PM (#42630378)
It's both. And it's going to continue until games are 100% and AI fever dream.
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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by ahartmetz on Thursday January 09, 2025 @02:47AM (#42642793)
Right, I should have said "generate extra pixels in every frame, not interpolate whole frames". Doing the former also increases frame rate by reducing computation per pixel.
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