By Hassan Mujtaba
Publication Date: 2026-02-18 07:20:00
NVIDIA’s DLSS 4.5 was compared against native resolution & AMD FSR Upscaling in several games & turned out to be the top choice in a blind test.
Native vs NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 vs AMD FSR Upscaling: Blind Test By Computerbase Reveals Which Is The Top Choice For Gamers
The blind test was done by Computerbase, in which over 1000 community members participated. The premise was simple: have a bunch of games using either Native Resolution, NVIDIA DLSS 4.5, and AMD FSR, and ask the community to pick their preferred choice based on image quality.
For comparisons, the six games that were used included: Anno 117, Arc Raiders, Cyberpunk 2077, Horizon Forbidden West, Satisfactory, and The Last of Us Part II.
The resolution was set to 4K in each game, and for Native resolution, TAA was used, which often leads to a blurry experience, but in most games, it is the only available AA option. For DLSS 4.5 and FSR (4), the “Quality” preset was used. The upscaling technologies have a higher preset, called DLAA, which would have further skewed the result in favor of the technologies, but that is essentially AA at native resolution, and not upscaling from a lower input resolution.
So, as for the results, it looks like the majority picked up NVIDIA’s DLSS 4.5 with 48.2% or 3,249 users preferring Team Green’s upscaling quality. Native was the second best with 24% or 1,619 users picking that up as the preferred choice. Only 15% or 1,013 users picked AMD’s…
