{"id":1544242,"date":"2026-04-02T14:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qrGBwKLiVyiZYbR8JKQbfL"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:34:57","slug":"minecraft-creator-notch-says-dlss-fundamentally-makes-no-sense-but-the-x-comments-say-um-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/minecraft-creator-notch-says-dlss-fundamentally-makes-no-sense-but-the-x-comments-say-um-actually\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft creator Notch says ‘DLSS fundamentally makes no sense’, but the X comments say ‘um, actually’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Minecraft creator and opinion-haver Notch has taken to X to complain about Nvidia’s upscaling and Frame Generation tech, DLSS. You might have heard of it, particularly its controversial new iteration<\/a>. However, it’s the whole concept of DLSS that seems to be confusing Notch.<\/p>\n

“DLSS fundamentally makes no sense,” the creator of the best-selling video game of all time opines<\/a>. “Because the graphics card is too slow to run the game at reasonable speeds, you use THE SAME HARDWARE to run a neural network to generate frames in between the existing ones.”<\/p>\n

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DLSS fundamentally makes no sense.Because the graphics card is too slow to run the game at reasonable speeds, you use THE SAME HARDWARE to run a neural network to generate frames in between the existing ones.April 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Putting aside the fact that Notch appears to be talking about Frame Generation specifically here, which is just one aspect of DLSS, lumping graphics card hardware into one monolith of a category is a touch reductionist, as specific ML-optimised Tensor Cores handle the…<\/p>\n

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