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HelixSR Mod Brings DLSS 3.7 to the Steam Deck and AMD Handhelds, Running Faster Than FSR 4 in Early Tests

The image shows an NVIDIA GeForce RTX promotional graphic for 'DLSS 3.7' on the left, and two AMD handheld gaming devices (the Steam Deck and ROG Ally) on the right.

A new mod is giving the Steam Deck and other AMD-powered handhelds something they were never supposed to have: NVIDIA’s DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) upscaling. HelixSR, released two days ago on GitHub by developer lonewolf0622, is a drop-in replacement for AMD’s FSR 3.1 upscaler on Direct3D 12 that runs NVIDIA’s DLSS neural network on AMD GPUs instead. Specifically, it uses Preset E (which the developer calls Model E), introduced with DLSS 3.7, the final iteration of DLSS’s CNN-based model before NVIDIA switched to Transformer models with DLSS 4. That’s actually a great fit for handhelds, since the CNN model […]

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