F1 2021 PC performance improved by up to 65% in 4K resolution by NVIDIA DLSS

F1 2021 is now officially available on PC and consoles. For a full review of the game, check out Chris’ opinion; here, however, we will focus on the PC performance enhancement enabled by NVIDIA DLSS for all gamers using a GeForce RTX GPU.

According to NVIDIA, frame rates improve by up to 65% when playing back in 4K resolution. Starting with the RTX 3070 GPU, all graphics cards allow more than 60 frames per second with maximized settings.

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NVIDIA also shared a brief video gameplay comparison of F1 2021 with NVIDIA DLSS on and off. For some reason, however, the implementation of NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Super Sampling technology in this game leaves a lot to be desired; For starters, it’s not possible to select different DLSS presets from the options, and the official benchmark linked above suggests that F1 2021 has DLSS locked in Performance mode with an output resolution of 4K. Additionally, while in other games the difference between DLSS 4K performance mode and native mode was almost indistinguishable, the same cannot be said for F1 2021.

F1 2021 also supports ray tracing technology on next-gen consoles (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S | X) and PC, as the developers revealed in a recent interview with Wccftech. Specifically, the game uses ray-traced highlights and shadows to further enhance its visuals in cut scenes, reruns, photo mode, and in the front-end.

For Codemasters, the application of highlights and shadows has been particularly important, with significant resources invested in better quality effects presets and custom techniques. Now, they’ve taken the next logical step and switched to ray tracing, adding highlights and shadows in real time.

With ray tracing, all surrounding detail is accurately reflected on every car, and on windows, water surfaces, and other metallic playing elements, which previously lacked reflections or featured simple cubic maps. Now, all of them reflect the world around them, improving fidelity and realism. And with ray tracing shadows, existing shadows are enhanced with finer details that naturally softer and sharpen, and many smaller game elements now cast shadows, further improving the realism and quality of circuits, cars and other elements of the game.

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