Nvidia DLSS 5 critics have the tech "completely wrong", CEO Jensen Huang insists, arguing it's somehow "very different than generative AI"

It conscionable "fuses controllability of the of geometry and textures and everything astir the crippled with generative AI"

As you're astir apt aware, Nvidia unveiled DLSS 5 earlier this week, showing disconnected the tech via a slideshow of crippled characters' look being transformed by its neural rendering into the benignant of unnervingly yassified visages you get successful dodgy net ads nowadays. Naturally, the overwhelming effect from players the institution and its partners had seemingly assumed would beryllium wowed by the tech has landed connected a standard capped by annoyed sighs and mediate fingers.

It's ok, though. Nvidia brag Jensen Huang has present said those whose socks haven't been blown disconnected are conscionable "completely wrong" astir what DLSS 5 is.

"Well, archetypal of all, they're wholly wrong," Huang said erstwhile asked astir disapproval of the tech successful a property Q&A astatine GTC 2026 attended by Tom's Hardware. "The crushed for that is because, arsenic I person explained precise carefully, DLSS 5 fuses controllability of the of geometry and textures and everything astir the crippled with generative AI."

After saying that, Huang went connected to explicate that the tech is "not post-processing astatine the framework level, it’s generative power astatine the geometry level". He continued that it's "very antithetic than generative AI; it’s content-control generative AI. That’s wherefore we telephone it neural rendering". As with Bethesda's effort astatine harm power aft a clump of DLSS 5 yassified Starfield characters were shown disconnected arsenic portion of the announcement, Huang's hanging his defence connected developers maintaining "artistic control" implicit their crippled erstwhile the tech's deployed.

The likes of Bethesda and Capcom person intelligibly fixed their blessing for their games to beryllium DLSS 5ed up for this uncover up of the tech's rollout this autumn, but it's precise pugnacious to reason that its turning of Grace Ashcroft into an eerily dead-eyed Scarlett Johansson lookalike oregon its effort to inject much realstic frown lines into the cartoony faces of Oblivion Remastered's elves is successful keeping with either of those games' established visuals.

Specifically successful presumption of the latter, the remaster's quality to graphically overhaul the models of Cyrodiil's residents without losing each of the uncanny and peculiar ugliness that made their erstwhile appearances truthful memorable was 1 of champion aspects of it. Throwing that distant to marque mediocre Honditar look similar he's astir to commencement yapping successful monotone machine dependable astir this 1 clever instrumentality that's resulted successful doctors hating him is artistically questionable careless of whether Todd Howard's fixed a thumbs up astatine immoderate constituent successful the process.

I've got to unopen up, though. As Huang pointed out, likelihood are I'm "completely wrong" successful having judged DLSS 5's changes - from what's been shown truthful acold - to beryllium astatine champion a thoroughly depressing usage of tech which could beryllium concentrating connected much utile worldly similar performance-focused upscaling, arsenic its erstwhile generations often have.