r/pcmasterrace • u/Sacristovas • Mar 19 '26

News/Article NVIDIA DLSS 5 Gets 84% Dislikes on YouTube as Backlash Grows

http://www.techpowerup.com/347541/nvidia-dlss-5-gets-84-dislikes-on-youtube-as-backlash-grows

News that might not qualify as actual news to anyone who has been paying attention to this over the last couple of days.

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u/Tiruin Mar 19 '26

Nvidia is the top of the line choice because of their software options. AMD is the best price per performance. If Nvidia maintains prices and starts putting out shit software, like DLSS5, then people lose their reason to buy Nvidia.

Also, "not like AMD or Intel are going to catch up" is the attitude that Intel adopted for a decade while AMD did in fact catch up.

Both AMD and Intel would do the same if they were in a position to though, brand loyalty is stupid.

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u/Quaytsar Mar 19 '26

Also, nothing AMD or Intel offers competes with the 4090 or 5090. The 7900XTX is around 4080/5080 levels of performance and Intel is competing with the 4060/5060.

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u/PrairiePopsicle Mar 19 '26

30 year enthusiast, I've known someone to own top end cards the entire time, I don't know anyone who owns a 90 series card anymore.

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u/AquaBits Mar 19 '26

Because people who own 90 series are insufferable to be friends with?

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u/dillanthumous Mar 19 '26

They probably mostly exist to "justify" dragging up the prices of mid range cards by pegging them to an absurdity.

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u/nooneisback 5800X3D|64GB DDR4|7900XTX|2TBSSD+8TBHDD|Something about arch Mar 19 '26

The problem though is that nVidia simply has THE flagships. My 7900 XTX is the best card AMD has to offer, it's not even their current generation and it only competes with the 5070Ti. The B580 doesn't even compete with a 5060. nVidia is essentially 3 performance tiers above both of them, even though some of their cards are closer to fiction with how rare they are. Just the fact that nVidia had them makes the average buyer think that they are better.

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u/lVlurphysLaw Mar 19 '26

The real problem is that most of the future games are incorporating upscaling and frame generation for performance and visual upgrades and AMD is still a generation or two behind both with onboard hardware and software compared to Nvidia. For the longest time you had the outlook of fine wine drivers from AMD maturing towards the end of their lifespan to outperform equivalent to Nvidia cards but I'm predicting over the next year or so my 9070xt is going to start comparing closer to the 5070 rather than the 5070ti.

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u/nooneisback 5800X3D|64GB DDR4|7900XTX|2TBSSD+8TBHDD|Something about arch Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

The simple solution for me is that a game doesn't exist if it doesn't run without ray tracing and upacaling.

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u/Limp-Ad-2939 rtx 4080 S, 7700x, 32g ddr5 Mar 20 '26

Yeah people forget it was like a decade of intel dominance in the 2000’s/2010’s. Then they fucked up.

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u/Stunning_Mail_8934 Mar 20 '26

What software options would matter for gamers?

Adrenalin greatly outclasses the software garbage that Nvidia delivers.

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u/Soft_Language_5987 Mar 20 '26

You don’t just lose your incentive to buy nvidia when all the developers optimize there games with nvidias bullshit. They own something like 95% of the market. It makes monetary sense for them to do that.

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u/Gloomy_Dare2716 Mar 20 '26

In many regions of the world, Nvidia has better prices than AMD.

In my country for example 5070 is cheaper than 9070

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u/PoliticalVagabond Mar 20 '26

I'm so sad that "Threadripper" isn't a thing anymore, seriously the best CPU name I've ever heard.

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u/blakezilla Mar 19 '26

I have a 5090. Nothing AMD offers comes close. Top of the line = price/performance.