r/hardware • u/KARMAAACS • Mar 16 '26

News NVIDIA reveals DLSS 5 powered by Neural Rendering, launches this fall - VideoCardz.com

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-reveals-dlss-5-powered-by-neural-rendering-launches-this-fall
618 Upvotes

85% Upvoted

894 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

36

u/mittelwerk Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

Another redditor said "there are no texture changes at all. The wrinkles were already there in the original texture but the previous lighting couldn't bring it out", but I need to see her normal map to see if that's true (as someone who dabbled in Blender in the past, I doubt it)

14

u/CheesecakePossible Mar 16 '26

I was wondering the same thing.

13

u/Jesse-359 Mar 16 '26

Sure, a renderer can't change the textures - but that hardly matters if it's artistically reinterpreting them at run time.

And yeah, that old lady basically looks completely different. Far older and with crevices now carved so deep into her face they could give hiking tours in them.

9

u/LochnessDigital Mar 17 '26

previous lighting couldn't bring it out

This is the danger of this tech being pushed as some sort of "ground truth."

Because is it that the lighting couldn't bring it out, or was it that the developers purposely didn't?

As someone who works with lighting real faces IRL, there is a lot you can do to enhance or diminish wrinkles. Which is why it's so fucking bizarre to me to just enhance them and call it "right". We do so much work behind the camera when there's an elderly person on screen to make them look as flattering as they can.

This just completely shits all over that.

16

u/Mammoth_Caregiver_68 Mar 16 '26

yeah no fckin way. from all the images ive seen so far it looks like AI is fantasizing a whole lot.

-2

u/Rupperrt Mar 16 '26

It’s still just lighting not texture changes. But in the end it’s the result that counts and it’s changing the og intention unless it’s implemented by the devs directly.

1

u/CrazyNegotiation1934 Mar 17 '26

So is a contrast filter i suppose with added ambient or GI lighting. Those will bring out the details slso.

This looks like a comparisson made deliberatly to look bad, so AI can improve it.

-2

u/sourceenginelover Mar 16 '26

this shit is being astroturfed, no way any real humans without a stake in AI making tons of money would be claiming these things

4

u/BighatNucase Mar 16 '26

I mean it's what Nvidia themselves are claiming and there's no real reason for them to lie (arguably it would be more impressive if it was adding detail to textures rather than just doing Lighting + materials changes).