Upscaling and Frame Generation are disasters meant to conceal unfulfilled promises from GPU makers for 4k gaming, and as a coverup for the otherwise horrible performance some modern games have, even at 1080/1440p resolutions.
Upscaling will never, no matter how much AI and overhead you throw at it, create an image that is as good as the same scene rendered at native res.
Frame Generation is a joke, and I am absolutely gobsmacked that people even take it seriously. It is nothing but extra AI frames shoved into your gameplay, worsening latency, response times, and image quality, all so you can artificially inflate a number. 30FPS gaming is, and will always be, infinitely better as an experience, than AI frame doubling a 30fps experience to 60FPS.
and because both these technologies exist, game devs are pushing out less optimized to completely unoptomized games that run like absolute dogshit, requiring you to use upscaling and shit even at 1080p just to get reasonable frame rates on GPUs that should run it just fine if it was optimized better (and we know its optimization, because some of these games do end up getting that optimization pass long after launch, and wouldnt you know… 9fps suddenly became 60fps)
I’ve had shit GPUs.
playing at lower res and settings gives a better image and performance than trying to upscale 540 to 1080p.
That’s your preference tbh, same as AA for most people. Also you can upscale from higher res, it doesn’t have to be 50%.
As long as it’s not forced - more options are welcome in my opinion.
Personally I’m not a fan of anything other than NativeAA/DLAA, but it’s a smaller issue for me than forced TAA or forced software RT.
Except useless shit like this is increasing GPU prices.
So its not just a matter of preference or opinion. Its an economic matter, They are throwing useless bullshit “Features” into cards and jacking the prices up to cover for them.
Nah, that’s mostly the “AI” machine learning crap. That stuff is definitely at present garbage that does nothing but eat electricity and bloat nvidia’s stock price.
People keep buying their cards, why would they not raise prices? If you look at the backlash to the 50 series launch and it’s “4090 performance” claims, upscaling and framegen can have the opposite effect on perception, yet people keep buying. Even in AMD’s case the cards are at 50% over MSRP yet they sell.
The biggest reason still is rampant consumerism. If people voted with their wallets it wouldn’t be this bad imo.