DLSS, FSR & XeSS, WTF Does All This Mean for Gamers?

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

1080p No Upscaling

The performance is great, as to be expected, using basically maxed-out settings with ray tracing turned off.

1080p DLSS Quality

Amazingly, DLSS didn’t do much here, but a small boost is a boost I guess.

1080p XeSS Quality

XeSS actually lowered the performance by one frame, but I suspect it’ll work better with (you guessed it) an Intel GPU.

1080p FidelityFX CAS

While this isn’t strictly an upscaling technology, it’s more a sharpening tool, it netted similar performance to XeSS.

1440p No Upscaling

Again, decent performance at 1440p with maxed-out settings and ray tracing turned off.

1440p DLSS Quality

DLSS definitely had an impact here, giving us an additional 12 FPS.

1440p XeSS Quality

XeSS to a lesser extent, but still, it ran great.

1440p FidelityFX CAS

FidelityFX actually lowered the performance, but again, I was more just curious about the sharpening technologies performance figures too.