Modders To The Rescue
When DLSS 3.0 first arrived, many claimed that modders will be able to get the new ‘frame generation’ technology to work on pre-Lovelace GPUs. To our surprise, u/JusDax on Reddit shared a post claiming to have used DLSS 3.0 on the Turing based RTX 2070. The user mentions that the RTX 2070 can offer 30-40FPS without ‘Frame Generation’ using DLSS Quality. On turning Frame Generation ON, the performance is boosted to 80FPS which is more than 2x higher. Not all is perfect as a few frame drops were faced, as expected. 2560×1440 res HDR off DLSS Balanced DLSS Frame Generation ON Ray Tracing Ultra preset (I get ~35-40 FPS without Frame Generation and DLSS at Quality) Edit: forgot to add some details
Hold Your Horses
While this really does make some Turing and Ampere users happy, it probably won’t last for that long. NVIDIA may announce a new driver within a few days, fixing these workarounds. However, this does show that DLSS 3.0 is limited to Lovelace just for stability purposes. Essentially, a few driver optimizations by NVIDIA and game developers and voilà, you just breathed a few more years into your RTX 2000/3000 GPU.
