NVIDIA DLSS Adds 12 Games And Claims 2X Boost In Hitman 3 At 4K

Right now, NVIDIA's Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) is still the most effective method for taking low-resolution gameplay and turning it into high-resolution display output without impacting interactive performance. That may change with future updates to AMD's open-source FSR 2.0, but for now, DLSS is king, with the best mix of performance and image quality—as long as you have the requisite GeForce RTX GPU, of course.

One of the several announcements coming from NVIDIA during the ongoing Computex Taipei trade show is that twelve more games are adding DLSS support. That might not seem noteworthy anymore—after all, as NVIDIA itself proudly notes, there are over 180 games that support the tech now. Indeed, it is to the point that when a new AAA game comes out and doesn't have DLSS support we're more surprised than when it does.

With many of the games in its announcement NVIDIA published graphs showing the performance gain players can expect from using DLSS, but Hitman 3 is curiously missing such a graph. As a result, we have no idea what GPU or DLSS preset were used for its comparison video, above. Still, the company is claiming that using DLSS can double your framerate in Hitman 3's demanding new ray-traced graphics mode, and we have no real reason to doubt it, as we've seen exactly that in other titles. While F1 22 won't have ray-traced global illumination (arguably the most exciting ray-traced visual effect), it will feature the use of ray-tracing for reflections, ambient occlusion, and shadows. You'll have a hard time getting great performance out of most graphics cards without making use of upscaling, and of course, NVIDIA encourages the use of DLSS. F1 22 comes out on July 1st.

The developer, Ghost Ship Games, still updates Deep Rock Galactic quite frequently, and in the most recent major update it got DLSS as well as the related DLAA. NVIDIA says DLSS can boost performance up to 60%, while you can run the game at native resolution and use DLAA to smooth over the visuals if you prefer.

The other new DLSS-enabled titles that NVIDIA is highlighting are Loopmancer, Hydroneer, LEAP, Propnite, Raji: An Ancient Epic, Vampire the Masquerade - Swansong, Turbo Sloths, and Warstride Challenges. We're not going to go over all of them in detail, but if you'd like to check out the bennies from toggling on DLSS, you can head over to NVIDIA's blog.