Is DLSS Frame Generation Headed To RTX 30 GPUs? Here's What NVIDIA Had To Say

When NVIDIA originally unveiled DLSS Frame Generation with the GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs (codenamed "Ada Lovelace"), it noted that this technology couldn't come to the GeForce RTX 30 Series "Ampere" GPUs because it required a specific hardware block built into the RTX 40 series, known as the "Optical Flow Accelerator." However, the new Multi-Frame Generation debuting as part of DLSS 4 no longer uses that block and is instead performed in GPU compute.

Given that, it makes sense that DLSS Frame Generation should find its way to the GeForce RTX 30 series now, right? Digital Foundry's Alex Battaglia posed that exact question to NVIDIA's Vice President of Applied Deep Learning Research, Bryan Catanzaro, and props to Alex for what is honestly a pretty hardball question. Catanzaro fielded it, though, saying:

I think this is primarily a question of optimization, and also engineering, and then the ultimate ...