Alongside its new GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs, Nvidia has also officially unveiled an upgrade to its supersampling tech with DLSS 3, and in an update published on its official website, the company has provided further details on exactly how it improves upon the existing tech.
As per Nvidia, DLSS 3 combines DLSS Super Resolution, the all-new DLSS Frame Generation, and NVIDIA Reflex to provide up to 4x performance boosts for games. As you’d expect the results are best if you’re using the technology on the new 40 Series GPUs.
“DLSS 3 adds Optical Multi Frame Generation to generate entirely new frames, and integrates NVIDIA Reflex low latency technology for optimal responsiveness,” the company explains. “DLSS 3 is powered by the new fourth-generation Tensor Cores and Optical Flow Accelerator of the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, which powers GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards.”
DLSS Frame Generation in particular works off of 4 inputs– current and prior game frames, an optical flow field generated by Ada’s Optical Flow Accelerator, and game engine data such as motion vectors and depth. Meanwhile, Nvidia Reflex synchronizes the GPU and CPU to achieve lower system latency, making for smoother and more responsive controls.
The company also states that DLSS 3 allows GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards to “render at up to twice the frame rate over what the CPU is able to compute”. For a game like Microsoft Flight Simulator, for instance, frame rate is booster by up to 2x.
“DLSS 3 delivers total gaming performance, advanced AI networks and Reflex software algorithms, dedicated Tensor Core and Optical Flow hardware, and an NVIDIA Supercomputer that continuously trains and improves AI networks,” Nvidia writes. “GeForce RTX 40 Series users get faster frame rates, quick responsiveness, and great image quality, which is only possible through full stack innovation.”
Meanwhile, Nvidia has also revealed a list of over 35 games and apps that will support DLSS 3 at launch. This includes previously released titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and the aforementioned Microsoft Flight Simulator, upcoming games like A Plague Tale: Requiem and Hogwarts Legacy, and game engines like Frostbite and Unreal Engine 5. You can check out the full list below.
Portal is also launching with full DLSS 3 and RTX support in November.
Games and apps with confirmed DLSS 3 support:
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Atomic Heart
- Black Myth: Wukong
- Bright Memory: Infinite
- Chernobylite
- Conqueror’s Blade
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Dakar Rally
- Deliver Us Mars
- Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed
- Dying Light 2 Stay Human
- F1 22
- F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
- Frostbite Engine
- HITMAN 3
- Hogwarts Legacy
- ICARUS
- Jurassic World Evolution 2
- Justice
- Loopmancer
- Marauders
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Midnight Ghost Hunt
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
- Naraka: Bladepoint
- NVIDIA Omniverse
- NVIDIA Racer RTX
- PERISH
- Portal with RTX
- Ripout
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
- Scathe
- Sword and Fairy 7
- SYNCED
- The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- THRONE AND LIBERTY
- Tower of Fantasy
- Unity
- Unreal Engine 4 & 5
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
