Ray tracing is improved with Nvidia’s DLSS 3.5, and it’s cruising to Cyberpunk 2077 this week

Cyberpunk 2077 volition become the archetypal crippled to enactment Nvidia DLSS 3.5, the latest mentation of the chipmaker’s upscaling technology. The update volition get connected September 21st with Update 2.0 — conscionable days earlier the motorboat of the game’s Phantom Liberty expansion.

DLSS 3.5 uses a caller technology called Ray Reconstruction, which Nvidia describes arsenic an AI-powered method that enhances the prime of ray tracing. Ray Reconstruction swaps “hand-tuned denoisers” with an AI web trained by a supercomputer that should effect successful higher-quality pixels betwixt sampled rays.

Additionally, DLSS 3.5 is trained utilizing 5 times much information than DLSS 3. It should besides beryllium capable to place antithetic ray-traced effects to “make smarter decisions astir utilizing temporal and spatial data” to let for higher-quality upscaling.

In Cyberpunk 2077’s case, that translates to improvements to the prime and clarity of reflections, much close planetary illumination, and amended lighting. Along with amended ray-tracing, the game’s Update 2.0 volition besides add conveyance combat and car chases, a “revamped” constabulary system, and redesigned perk and accomplishment trees. When Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty comes retired connected September 26th, it volition besides enactment Nvidia DLSS 3.5.

Crucially, portion DLSS 3 was constricted to RTX 40-series graphics cards, DLSS 3.5 volition beryllium disposable to each RTX GPUs. That means you’ll spot these benefits adjacent connected a five-year-old RTX 2080. Other games, including Portal with RTX, Alan Wake 2, and Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project are acceptable to get DLSS 3.5 aboriginal this fall.