"If you still own an RTX 3000 series GPU, you could be in luck."
"So, you're telling me there's a chance?"
The recent conversation between Bryan Catanzaro, Vice President of Applied Research for Deep Learning at Nvidia, suggests that the RTX 3000 series graphics cards could receive Frame Generation functionality. This feature, which uses artificial intelligence to generate additional frames and improve the frame rate, seems to be on Nvidia's radar as the launch of the RTX 5000 series approaches.
Catanzaro revealed that Nvidia is exploring ways to optimize the performance of older hardware. Currently, the existing Frame Generation model, which will be updated with the release of the RTX 5080 and 5090 cards, relies on optical flow accelerators to detect motion between frames. However, the new versions of Frame Generation, including Multi Frame Generation reserved for the 5000 series GPUs, are expected not to require this accelerator but rather depend on artificial intelligence solutions.
Despite the RTX 3000 having weaker Tensor Cores, the new Frame Generation architecture could be less demanding in terms of VRAM usage and could also dispense with the optical flow accelerator. This would open the possibility for RTX 3000 users to access this innovative feature.
Although all of this is still speculation about potential improvements, if Nvidia succeeds in implementing Frame Generation on the 3000 series, it could revitalize older graphics cards and allow their owners to continue enjoying the latest PC titles without having to invest in a new GPU from the RTX 5000 series.
Therefore, it is wise to wait for the advancements that DLSS 4 might bring for these previous GPUs and to stay alert for any future announcements from Nvidia that confirm these possibilities.
