Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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No upscaling algo produces a 'more accurate' image than native rendering, that's absolute nonsense.
It produces a (slightly to significantly) lower quality, but same res image (significantly to slightly) faster than native res, but never 'better quality'.
The SNR of a native image is... 1, 100%, no loss.
The SNR of any upscaler is... some smaller number, there is always lost quality.
If you mean to say that intelligent temporal upscaling produces only slightly lower quality images a good deal faster than native, enabling a higher fps... than yes, I don't think anyone disputes that...
But the cost and literal wattage powerdraw of cards capable of doing that, with modern high fidelity AAA games, at 4k... such GPUs are essentially as expensive on their own as a well cost-performance-optimized 1440p entire PC.
The whole point of this tech was originally marketed as being able to enable high quality, high speed gaming at 4k, by essentially branching the proverbial tech tree ... and it hasn't worked, the result still is that such GPUs are still massively expensive and only attainable for a tiny % of significantly wealthy people.