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Phil Hayton

Your RTX 3080 and other older GPUs could get new AI superpowers after RTX 5090 launch, and I'm happy Nvidia is even considering it

RTX 3080 GPU with green ripple effect Nvidia RTX 50-series backdrop.

Those of you with an RTX 3080 or one of Nvidia's older GPUs will no doubt be feeling a bit of Frame Generation FOMO. The tech first arrived alongside the RTX 40-series and has since evolved into a new Multi-Frame Generation feature supported by cards like the RTX 5080 via DLSS 4. However, the green teams seems to have older models on its mind, and support for your old Ampere graphics card isn't out of the question.

In an interview with Digital Foundry, Nvidia's Deep Learning VP Bryan Catanzaro delved into DLSS 4, the AI upscaling suite that could convince you to buy an RTX 5080. During the chat, Catanzaro is quizzed on what's keeping the feature from running on RTX 3000, a question that's been on my mind for years seeing as it can unofficially run on those cards.

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