Out of the .exe.

And since fewer pixels need to be pushed, overall performance is higher.

Is it a night-and-day difference in visual quality between this and DSR?

An Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition, installed in a PC.

Theres also one other addition that can soften the frame rate blow even further: DLSS.

Now, this wont be available in every game, but you could use both it and DLDSR simultaneously.

Thats nearly 20fps more than when using the default anti-aliasing, and less than 10fps below the all-native performance.

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A God of War graphics comparison image showing DSR 4x on the left versus native rendering on the right.

A God of War graphics comparison image showing DLDSR on the left versus native rendering on the right.

A God of War graphics comparison image showing DLDSR on the left versus a combination of DLDSR and DLSS on the right.

A Horizon Zero Dawn graphics comparison image showing DLSS/DLDSR on the left versus native rendering on the right.