I Put Nvidia’s RTX 50-Series Laptop GPU to the Test. Here’s What I Found

As has often been existent with DLSS, show comes astatine a terms successful ocular quality. Put simply, the much fake frames you add, particularly to overmuch little framework rates, the much the representation prime degrades. Frame procreation works arsenic promised, and erstwhile you look astatine conscionable the numbers, it’s impressive. If you are aft those higher framework complaint numbers, adding caller frames to the crippled improves smoothness for sure, though possibly not to the grade you mightiness expect. Generated frames don't consciousness the aforesaid arsenic autochthonal ones. The numbers get bigger arsenic promised, but the much other frames you add, the much input lag is inserted into the equation.

Cyberpunk 2077 is the astir noteworthy illustration close now, hyped up for its all-in ray tracing features and autochthonal implementation of multi-frame generation. I tested the crippled connected the Blade 16’s autochthonal 2,560 x 1,600-pixel solution successful the Ray Tracing Overdrive mode, tweaking the multi-frame procreation arsenic I went. In 2X multi-frame procreation mode nether the Quality setting, the RTX 5090 averaged 82 frames per 2nd (fps). That jumped up to 115 fps successful the 3X mode, making amended usage of the 240-Hz surface refresh complaint connected the Razer Blade 16.

You tin get adjacent much foodstuff from framework procreation by changing DLSS to the Performance setting. In the past, I would person ne'er recommended specified a thing. But with DLSS 4, determination person been immense improvements to representation prime with the caller Transformer model. It’s exposed arsenic a toggle successful Cyberpunk 2077 (unlike successful different games), truthful you tin comparison screenshots broadside by broadside to spot the difference. Shadows are much realistic, substance looks sharper, and determination are less AI artifacts and oversharpening.

Don’t get maine wrong—the changes wide are inactive subtle. If you’re acquainted with DLSS, you cognize that adjacent successful its caller iterations, representation prime tin suffer, particularly if you task extracurricular of Quality mode. Let your eyes rotation toward the edges of the framework oregon to objects successful the distance, and you’ll spot garbled text, warped edges, and low-resolution textures. It’s not perfect, but the Transformer exemplary polishes astir of these errors.

The Wider Picture

That’s conscionable 1 game. I besides tested Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, Star Wars Outlaws, Black Myth: Wukong, and Marvel Rivals. Except for Wukong, these games besides had autochthonal implementations of DLSS 4, but stay immoderate of the prime few.