NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 is making games even more immersive and realistic with the introduction of Ray Reconstruction, a new AI-powered technique that further enhances the quality of ray tracing.
Ray Reconstruction replaces hand-tuned denoisers, which resolve sampled rays in a scene, with an NVIDIA supercomputer-trained AI network that generates higher-quality pixels between sampled rays.
Trained with 5X more data than DLSS 3, DLSS 3.5 recognises different ray-traced effects to make smarter decisions about using temporal and spatial data and to retain high-frequency information for superior-quality upscaling.
DLSS 3.5 is available for all GeForce RTX and NVIDIA RTX users.
In other DLSS news, Lies of P, Party Animals, Warhaven and Witchfire are all launching this month with day-one DLSS support, and gamers can check out an open beta for The First Descendant, an upcoming DLSS 3-accelerated game.
In each game, GeForce RTX users will receive the definitive experience.
Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.0 update has launched with many enhancements, including DLSS 3.5. In Cyberpunk 2077’s Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode, DLSS 3.5’s new Ray Reconstruction technique improves the quality and clarity of reflections, global illumination is even more accurate, and lighting is more dynamically responsive for an even better, more immersive, more realistic experience.
On September 26, 2023, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty launches with complete ray tracing and DLSS 3.5 with Ray Reconstruction. Phantom Liberty is a new spy-thriller adventure for Cyberpunk 2077.
“Thanks to DLSS 3.5’s smart technology, fuelled by AI rendering power, you can experience Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty’s newest location Dogtown at its very best — with sharper images, more accurate lighting, and the highest frame rates possible,” said Jakub Knapik, VP of Art, Global Art Director, CD PROJEKT RED.
Creative platforms and applications have a wide variety of content that is difficult for traditional denoisers as they require hand-tuning per scene.
As a result, when previewing content, users get suboptimal image quality. With DLSS 3.5, the AI neural network can recognise various scenes, producing high-quality images during preview and before committing a long time for a final render.
Chaos Vantage is a popular 3D visualisation tool that enables creators to explore large scenes in a fully ray-traced environment. Vantage, which is already accelerated on RTX GPUs with NVIDIA’s OptiX denoiser and NVIDIA Super Resolution, added support for Ray Reconstruction on September 21, 2023, to provide further enhancements to image quality – providing a massive boost for creators navigating complex scenes.
