Nvidia DLSS will soon give Red Dead Redemption 2 a much-needed FPS boost

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Nvidia and Rockstar Games have good news for owners of GeForce RTX hardware: Red Dead Redemption 2 is saddling up with DLSS support to improve performance in a future update.

DLSS, short for Deep Learning Super Sampling, is the second best way to boost frame rates in games. The first, of course, is to invest in a new graphics card. However, the situation being what it is at the moment, buying a GPU is not a viable option for a lot of people.

That is where the latest version of DLSS (v2) can help. Nvidia's AI-powered upscaling scheme can dramatically improve performance in supported games on GeForce RTX hardware, and unlike the initial implementation, images are generally not blurry or degraded when turning it on.

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Nvidia didn't say exactly when R2D2 will get DLSS support, only that it is "coming soon." Our best guess is with the next GPU driver update, but we'll have to wait and see.

Of course, this does not mean much for owners of Radeon GPU hardware. However, that will begin to change this June, when AMD's open source FidelityFX Super Resolution technology arrives. FSR is AMD's answer to DLSS, though the list of supported games will be comparatively small at first.

In any event, given the GPU shortage, it's nice to see both Nvidia and AMD focusing on upscaling techniques to improve performance on the software side, at no additional cost to gamers.

Paul has been playing PC games and raking his knuckles on computer hardware since the Commodore 64. He does not have any tattoos, but thinks it would be cool to get one that reads LOAD"*",8,1. In his off time, he rides motorcycles and wrestles alligators (only one of those is true).