Nvidia hopes to redesign what gaming visuals should look like by announcing its all-new DLSS 5, an AI model that the company promises will deliver photorealistic visuals with today’s gaming hardware. Team Green called it “the most significant breakthrough in computer graphics since the debut of real-time ray tracing in 2018.” The company also says the new technology will allow game developers to achieve the level of photorealistic computer graphics that were previously only possible in Hollywood visual effects. Related The Latest Nvidia Update Will Make Your GPU Feel Like New Finally, an update that actually increases performance. What is DLSS 5? Neither upscaling nor frame generation DLSS started out as AI technology used to boost performance through upscaling and frame generation. DLSS 5 is something completely different. It is a model that can infuse in-game scenes to generate photorealistic renderings that handle complex elements such as subsurface scattering on skin, the delicate sheen of fabric, and light-material interactions on hair, all while retaining the structure and semantics of the original scene. The way DLSS …