alt Hacker NewsAlmost 8ms on 1080p resolution seems extremely expensive, does the original also eat into the rendering budget as much?
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strangecasts • today at 9:25 AM
Worth remembering it is running a single-step diffusion model working in pixel space to generate each frame, it's a technical feat in itself that people are even using the words "frames per second"
MYEUHD • today at 9:03 AM
Yes the original is very expensive. It depends on the resolution and the GPU used:
RTX 5060: 9.9 ms at 1080p
RTX 5070: 10.2 ms at 1440p
RTX 5080: 13.7 ms at 2160p
RTX 5090: 8.2 ms at 2160p
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robinduckett • today at 8:56 AM
The original does tend to reduce the FPS by half or more
vrighter • today at 9:39 AM
probably, going by the reported massive performance hits
Yes, see the numbers below. In most games, it's basically unusable if you want to play on 60 FPS or above unless you have a 5090.
The current implementation is more of a tech demo than a practical way to play games (+ officially it's available in 1 game). It's _fast enough_ to make some impressive YouTube videos but you most likely won't want to play anything with it yet.
Nvidia has stated that they're still working on improving the performance. No doubt future hardware generations will also include further hardware optimisations.
The potential for this kind of technology is pretty awesome, especially given that people have also found ways to add this to emulators.