Nvidia's big thing for gamersTM from CES this year has been the announcement and rapid release of DLSS 4.5. But, while all the noise I've seen has been about either confusion on the different model presets or the image stability enhancements (and occasional failures) it delivers, I've been surprised at just how much more computationally demanding it is. DLSS 4.5 can draw a ton more power from your graphics card.
Nick has been going to town testing DLSS 4.5 since the Nvidia App beta released, running presets across different games and across both an RTX 5090 and an RTX 3060 Ti, just to see how hefty the performance difference is between the GPU generations. While editing his article I've been scrubbing through the video benchmarks on the page, and while you're not always seeing a huge performance difference in terms of frame rates, you're often seeing a big delta between the power draw of the two DLSS models.
