Everyone Hates NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 - DTNS 5227
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Why improved lighting in games has received a lot of hate, plus, you can now run Doom on the human brain.
Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.
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| 0:00.0 | This right here is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, March 17th, 2026. Happy St. Patrick's Day. |
| 0:11.1 | We tell you what you need to know, give you some important context in Faith in Begora, help each other understand. |
| 0:16.6 | Today, Nvidia announced a lot about its profitable data center chips at GDC. |
| 0:22.3 | But Gamer backlash against DLSS-S-5 is getting a lot of attention. |
| 0:27.1 | It's funny. |
| 0:27.6 | The first stories I saw were all like, ooh, this is good. |
| 0:30.4 | And then like immediately everyone not liking it. |
| 0:34.1 | Me, oh, I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Sarah Lane. |
| 0:37.2 | Let's start with what you need to know with that |
| 0:38.6 | big story. Yes, indeed. We have a lot to tell you from Invidia, so we'll save the DLSS-5 stuff |
| 0:47.6 | till the end. But let's start with the data center stuff. InvVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made several big announcements. |
| 0:55.6 | First and foremost, they are confident about making money. |
| 0:59.3 | Previously, the company forecast it would make $500 billion in sales from |
| 1:03.6 | Nvidia's data center chips by the end of 20, 2020, 6. |
| 1:08.8 | Monday, Wang extended that by another year for a total of more than a trillion dollars by the end of 2027. |
| 1:15.1 | So he really didn't increase it. |
| 1:16.5 | He just said, we'll keep making $500 billion, maybe a little more. |
| 1:19.9 | To further make that case for the market being real, that this is not a bubble, |
| 1:24.8 | Roche, the pharmaceutical manufacturer, said it has deployed more than 3,500 |
| 1:30.4 | Blackwell GPUs, calling it, quote, the greatest announced GPU footprint available to a pharmaceutical |
| 1:37.6 | company, company, company. And Vida also discussed deals with IBM, HP Enterprise, Adobe, and Uber. |
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