NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said that the use of AI-based scaling technologies will be mandatory for the further development of graphics in games. This was reported by TechSpot.

“We can’t do computer graphics anymore without artificial intelligence,” says Jensen Huang. “We compute one pixel, we infer the other 32. I mean, it’s incredible… And so we hallucinate, if you will, the other 32, and it looks temporally stable, it looks photorealistic, and the image quality is incredible, the performance is incredible.”

NVIDIA believes that AI-powered scaling is becoming increasingly necessary. Graphics technology may become even more resource-intensive, and AI-powered hardware scaling techniques can help achieve playable frame rates on a wide range of systems, from handheld and gaming consoles to high-end desktops.

It’s no surprise that NVIDIA is pushing for upscalers, as its own DLSS technology is one of the most prominent examples of AI-powered scaling in gaming. The model is trained on high-quality images to reconstruct details and create crisper, cleaner results.

Another scaling technology is Intel’s XeSS, which provides up to a 2x performance boost in some games, allowing you to increase frame rates without significantly losing image quality. XeSS works very similarly to NVIDIA’s DLSS, with the only difference being that Intel XeSS supports graphics cards from different manufacturers, while DLSS is limited to NVIDIA graphics cards.

AMD’s upscaling technology, known as FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution), is the only upscaling technology so far that does not use artificial intelligence. It uses a combination of spatial and temporal scaling, anti-aliasing, and other methods to improve the quality of low-resolution images. However, the future version of FSR 4.0 will be based on artificial intelligence.

Microsoft also introduced its own feature called Auto Super Resolution, which uses AI to improve the quality of games in real time. However, this technology is also the most demanding to the user’s hardware and very few games support it.