It is not, but prohibitive pricing causes potential customers to be more considered in their buying decisions. If I'm looking at graphics cards, and one costs triple the other for AI reasons, some will have the decision made for them by their wallet, and others will decide the AI stuff is not worth more than the whole rest of the PC, leaving only the whales with more money than sense.

Catering only to whales may work for businesses making microtransaction games, because there is no limit to how much a whale might spend there, but no matter how rich a customer is, he only wants one graphics card for his PC, maybe 2.

Cant even afford one haha my trusty 2070 super still works great for my needs.

I wonder how much power two 5090s would draw?🤔

Energy bill through the roof I guess.

Yeah that, other DLSS version was used to boost framerate. If people want pixel clarity for flex they'd run at 4k native. If this is mainly for altering visual, might as well market this as a separate product, like their corporate version of ReShade or something.

In fact, I vaguely remember they have something like that already. Around Battlefield V (2018) release I remember Nvidia had a tool to alter the games rendering settings deeper than the game itself allows, like lowering the LOD way lower in quality making it easier to see enemies, etc. DLSS5 could've been part of this thing.

I'm actually happy I can't afford this bullshit.

I don't know how nuanced the definition of "AI slop" is these days, but to me, it seems to refer to any content generated by AI directly for consumption. If that's the definition you're using, then this product does produce AI slop, because the art is materially altered from what the game's art direction put in there, as can clearly be seen in the example side by side image comparisons. The differences clearly exceed simple lighting and texture changes, and the lighting it does alter does not appear to adhere to the same light source as the unaltered images, creating more detail at the expense of accuracy to the original content. It is the difference between "make me an image clearer than this" vs. "make this image clearer".

Oh no you cant afford it? Ive got good news! You can play it on the cloud!

They're using 2x5090 in the demo, this won't even be slightly relevant until next gen cards, and given RAMpocalypse that's ~2028.

Also, AMD on linux is fine, I've a 7080XT and it's fine (at least 60+ usually 100+Hz) for 3440x1440 (~4Kish) on ultra with everything I've thrown at it (without ray trace though, and I haven't played the real ballbusters yet, I'm patient). Which is not to say AMD hasn't dropped the ball, kicked it out of bounds and then buried it with pricing and other competitiveness, but the hardware is capable and a way better linux experience.

It's crazy watching amd snatch defeat from the jaws of victory