You may not like them, but AI upscalers are currently saving PC gaming

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> While you can certainly point the finger at a certain type of AI for this price surge, gamers also have to give a lot of credit to another type of AI; the kind that gives them a significant performance uplift in their favorite games. DLSS from Nvidia, FSR from AMD, and XeSS from Intel are all different implementations of performance-boosting reconstruction technology, increasingly powered by machine learning, that delivers higher framerates with minimal image degradation. Without it, a lot of gamers wouldn't be able to play their favorite games with the fidelity they expect.