A brand new technology of Nvidia graphics playing cards launched yesterday (not which you can truly purchase any of them), so it’s no shock that there’s a considerable driver replace to associate with them. What’s stunning is that mentioned drivers aren’t only for the RTX 50-series, although there’s actually quite a bit in there for them. The updates additionally embody efficiency enhancements for earlier playing cards as outdated because the RTX 2080 from 2018.
PC Gamer notes that along with a number of latest goodies for the RTX 5080, 5090, and 40-series, enhancements to the improved ray reconstruction, tremendous decision, and deep studying anti-aliasing ought to enhance efficiency on the RTX 30-series and 20-series, too. Nvidia doesn’t name these playing cards out in its prolonged weblog submit for the newest app/driver replace, however older playing cards can certainly make the most of these new enhancements in response to the chart under.
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Be aware that a few of these options are nonetheless in beta and may have to be manually enabled earlier than you’ll be able to see advantages.
The newer 40- and 50-series playing cards get the majority of the enhancements within the new DLSS 4 mannequin, in fact, most notably the much-vaunted body technology function. The 50-series can do multi-frame technology with as much as 4 AI-generated frames in between conventionally rendered recreation frames. It’s a really cool trick, even when some players aren’t offered on “fake frames” as a reputable efficiency improve.
The RTX 5090 is a powerful card, as Brad says in his evaluation. The RTX 5080… not a lot. However laying down 4 figures for a GPU (once more, in the event you may even discover one proper now) is perhaps rather less painful in the event you can see Nvidia supporting older {hardware} virtually seven years after launch.
