No offense meant to OP but those comparisons are worthless, its like comparing two paintings to see which one is the copy but you are doing it by looking through binoculars from 100m away. You need the native resolution images and they need to be not encoded in (too) lossy a format.
Also I would like to see them starting to show comparison where the native 4K is sharpened as well, for fairness.
I already regret writing this because I sound like a moaning bastard while you all enjoy DLSS so much
I don't know why but before you posted that I never bothered to check native images using dlss.
I went to Eurogamer's control dlss 2.0 article, and it seems that native 1080p to 4k using 2.0 is blurrier than native 4k, but 1440p native to 4k using dlss 2.0 is sharper. But, I did see some haloing artifacts around objects like the main character in that game, so it's still not perfect and native 4k is probably still the way to go for purists. That is, if you have an infinite amount of resources which we don't yet for that game lol. I do not like sharpening, so if they're using that I would like for that to be optional and that would explain the haloing.
I couldn't find native images of death stranding on their site, but I remember DF said it made some tiny details like particles disappear.
Basically it's not
quite magic and there are trade offs, but if they can iron out these minor issues in a 3.0 version, at the very least, it would greatly enhance native rendering at whichever resolution we choose, if not quite as good in extreme comparisons like 1080p dlss to native 4k. But then again, the leap from prior versions to 2.0 is massive so there's no telling how good it will get.
The purist in me would hope Nintendo holds out for a 3.0 version so these artifacts go away though.
