The DLSS shot is the one that looks oversharpened, has false detail and has oversaturated colour + incorrect gamma compared to the the native image. I have an extremely high quality display calibrated to a degree of accuracy I couldn't achieve so is effectively "the best it can be", I want to see the creator's intent, not something else, just like how I wouldn't turn on an image enhancement in my TV no matter how miniscule the downsides were.
I pointed this stuff out on every DLSS comparison shots I ever saw since version 2 (Maybe 1.9?) came out (As you know 1.0/the way it was in Control at launch wasn't really that great) and in a recent video talking about the next version they talked about how it would hopefully fix the colour and gamma shifts that nobody really noticed until they pointed it out.
Most people aren't on my side, I get that. I understand why you would do it and you'll definitely have a smoother experience than me, for some people thats more important, but not for me. Sorry if its not clear but by IQ I mean the clarity of the image, not graphical effects, even though I know thats not cut and dried since some effects increase clarity.
I'm not debating whether increased resolution/detail is as imporant to the overall IQ as RT or other settings being higher, I was talking about when the settings are the same, I choose native over DLSS regardless of how much more performance it gives me, because I don't like how DLSS alters the image in the ways I noted above.
No offense meant but I really don't care enough anymore to continue this discussion, enjoy your games in the way you would like. I wish I
didn't notice these things, but I do, so here we are. Every time I get into these debates I feel like a raving lunatic: