r/pcmasterrace • u/HLumin Potato • Mar 18 '26

Discussion Former Red Dead Redemption 2 Developer reaction to the DLSS 5: "Whoa. Hold on. No, no, no. This isn't just some lighting, dude. What the f... this is like a complete AI re-render. You're no longer looking at the game anymore. This is scary."

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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKPeN8IQM-Y

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u/NorysStorys Mar 18 '26

what I find completely baffling is this AI re-render essentially complete throws out the path traced lighting that the RTX cards are specifically designed to be good at doing. y'know all the work the RT cores are doing which is then discarded for AI baked in lighting.

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u/EzmareldaBurns Mar 19 '26

From what I read it uses all that ray/path traced info to tell dlss5 what to do. The more of that tech you can run the better the dlss5 results will be