Nvidia DLSS Preset C boosts RTX 4060 frame rates by up to 28% in heavy games

Nvidia's new DLSS Frame Generation preset C allows for a huge performance boost if you are a mid-tier gamer, but can tolerate its shakiness. We are talking about frame rate increases of up to 28% over the vanilla preset B in more stressful games, allowing low-end GPU owners to finally achieve high refresh rates without needing to upgrade. However, such performance comes at a price that includes visual bugs and crashing, making it currently not an ideal choice for daily use.

Experimental setting reduces latency but causes UI blurring

Testing was performed on an Nvidia RTX 4060 with driver 617.14 on an AMD Ryzen 7 5700X CPU and 16GB of DDR4-3200 RAM (Windows 11). The new Preset C can be accessed via the Nvidia App beta's global override for DLSS, which forces the new preset on all games that support it (without relying on individual game settings). This makes it easy to switch on the fly between the stable preset B and the new experimental C so that you can compare their performance results side by side.

• Test GPU: Gigabyte RTX 4060 Eagle OC
• Test CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
• Test RAM: 16GB DDR4-3200
• OS: Windows 11
• Driver Version: 617.14

The comparison was further expanded by the Gaming Optimized hardware channel which conducted an in-depth analysis for five high-load games in order to gauge the effect of the new preset. Resident Evil Requiem for example has its frame rate pushed from 86 to 99 FPS on preset C, Gears of War jumps from 101 to 129 FPS (opening scene), and the likes of Cyberpunk 2077 benefit from an increased frame rate going from 85 to 93 FPS (streets). So yes, the new preset actively helps lower the system's input latency and also reduces the VRAM and RAM consumption over the previous preset.

All this newfound performance does not mean the preset is not in a testing phase, because there are some clear limitations to the experience. For one, if the base framerate falls below 40 FPS, then you will be seeing a lot of blurring and ghosting effects on UI elements. Also, according to the test results it seems there are chances for black screens to appear under certain circumstances in Cyberpunk 2077. So while you get a free performance boost, this is not something that the casual gamer could rely on just yet.