DLSS 4.5 arrived today with the latest Nvidia driver, and enthusiasts have already put the new upscaling model through its paces, benchmarking it on older RTX 30-series hardware. Mostly Positive Reviews on X, ran several benchmarks on their RTX 3080 Ti in Cyberpunk 2077, comparing DLSS 4.5 to 4.0, and saw up to a 24% performance hit from the more computationally intensive DLSS 4.5 model.
At the RT Ultra preset, Cyberpunk 2077 saw a 24% reduction in FPS, going from 42 FPS to 32 FPS when switching to DLSS 4.5. At 1440p, the performance drop went down to 14%, going from 72 FPS to 61 FPS, and at 1440p with ray-tracing disabled, performance dropped by 20%, going down from 108 FPS to 86 FPS.
