{"id":1174005,"date":"2026-02-13T13:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/digitalfoundry-2025-stress-testing-dlss-4s-super-resolution-transformer-technology"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:21:14","slug":"stress-testing-dlss-4s-super-resolution-transformer-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/stress-testing-dlss-4s-super-resolution-transformer-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress-testing DLSS 4&#8217;s super resolution transformer technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stress-testing-dlss-4s-super-resolution-transformer-technology.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nDebuting alongside the new Blackwell GPU architecture, Nvidia gifted a remarkable new technology to owners of all existing RTX GPUs &#8211; the DLSS 4 transformer model. We&#8217;ve already talked about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/digitalfoundry-2024-nvidia-dlss-4-tested-ray-reconstruction-upgrades-deliver-radical-enhancements\">how the new ray reconstruction produces some outstanding results<\/a>, but what about upscaling, or super resolution? Outlets like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ELEu8CtEVMQ\">Hardware Unboxed<\/a> have already put out excellent analysis of the new DLSS, so we went for a slightly different approach. Based on our years of testing games and isolating specific DLSS issues within these titles, we decided to go back and re-test DLSS pain points, swapping out the old convolutional neural network (CNN) model for the brand-new transformer alternative with a view to seeing how well the new technology copes in known trouble spots.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/digitalfoundry-2025-stress-testing-dlss-4s-super-resolution-transformer-technology\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/digitalfoundry-2025-stress-testing-dlss-4s-super-resolution-transformer-technology\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debuting alongside the new Blackwell GPU architecture, Nvidia gifted a remarkable new technology to owners of all existing RTX GPUs &#8211; the DLSS 4 transformer model. We&#8217;ve already talked about how the new ray reconstruction produces some outstanding results, but what about upscaling, or super resolution? Outlets like Hardware Unboxed have already put out excellent analysis of the new DLSS, so we went for a slightly different approach. Based on our years of testing games and isolating specific DLSS issues within these titles, we decided to go back and re-test DLSS pain points, swapping out the old convolutional neural network (CNN) model for the brand-new transformer alternative with a view to seeing how well the new technology copes in known trouble spots. 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