Nvidia has tweaked the most recent model of DLSS in order that it eats much less of your graphics card reminiscence than earlier than, doubtlessly giving your Nvidia GeForce graphics card just a little extra room to breathe. The change comes with the discharge of the brand new Nvidia 310.3.0 Software program Growth Package (SDK), which the corporate says reduces the VRAM calls for of DLSS when utilizing upscaling and ray tracing.
Even at decrease resolutions, video games with high-resolution textures and ray tracing can push VRAM utilization past the capacities of many in any other case nice GPUs, as we present in our Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 overview, with some video games actually pushing the boundaries of 8GB of reminiscence. That is the place the brand new Nvidia 310.3.0 SDK can lend a serving to hand, decreasing the VRAM utilization of the brand new DLSS transformer mannequin by 20%. This doubtlessly frees up extra VRAM to present the GPU just a little extra headroom earlier than efficiency falls off a cliff.
In our assessments, as demonstrated in our RTX 5090 overview, we have discovered that the brand new transformer mannequin of Nvidia DLSS Tremendous Decision has a large impression on picture high quality and stability in comparison with the outdated CNN mannequin. Recreation graphics look a lot sharper and fewer blurry, and there is a lot much less noise and ghosting round shifting objects too.
Nevertheless, enabling the transformer mannequin additionally leads to a slight efficiency hit in comparison with the CNN mannequin, and it additionally makes use of extra VRAM, with Nvidia’s “ballpark” figures within the SDK documentation (as noticed by Videocardz) displaying {that a} sport operating at 4K would wish 387.21MB of VRAM for the DLSS transformer, in comparison with simply 199.65MB for the older CNN mannequin.
There’s nonetheless a VRAM penalty to pay for the transformer mannequin with the brand new SDK, however Nvidia says that footprint has now been lowered to 307.37MB, a drop of over 20% in comparison with utilizing the older 310.2.0 SDK, and the drops at different resolutions are all in the identical 20% space.
That is nonetheless a good quantity of reminiscence to allocate simply to upscaling, after all, particularly while you release over 100MB by utilizing the CNN mannequin at 4K as an alternative, nevertheless it’s good to see the figures coming down. Hopefully, Nvidia is certainly planning a refresh of its Blackwell GPUs with extra VRAM, as seen within the newest rumors in regards to the RTX 5070 Tremendous, in addition to the RTX 5080 Tremendous.
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