To that end,
here's a 3-way imgsli comparison between PC 4K DLSS, and PS5 Perf/Quality modes. Wish I could have lined up the PC and PS5 shots a little better but you get the idea.
That site is pretty slow btw, so give it time to load the images.
Gotta say btw after playing it a bit more, Nixxes are truly ridiculous with how far ahead they seem to be over other development teams in wrangling DX12. I've prob played for 3 hours now, and during that time I have yet to see the slightest frametime blip that either wasn't just GPU resources being overextended, or the deliberate pauses that are put in for cutscene camera cuts. Like literally -
not. a. single. one. Hell, I'm still mostly GPU limited if even if I put it on 720p with DLSS perf. This is on a 12400F, DDR4 setup - never dropping below 100fps, CPU rarely cracks 50% overall, and the frametime graph is just amazingly consistent. I mean I probably have seen the occasional spike more often in Doom Eternal for pete's sake.
Jumping back and forth between Windows and Linux recently has made me even further appreciate the problem of shader stuttering. Steam's fossilize system where the shared Vulkan caches are distributed can make a huge difference in some games (hello Borderlands 3 with your
6GB of shader cache!), as well as engaging the dxvk hud to show realtime shader compile events during gameplay just further reinforce how often those little blips on the frametime graph I've often seen over the years can, in fact, be due to shader compiling. Yes, not all stutters are shader related, and the games Nixxes ports already have well streamlined engines for the games they're designed for, but all that would be for naught if they didn't spend so much time crafting systems to handle the huge amount of PSO's these games demand.
