Nvidia’s DLSS has become the secret sauce that keeps gamers hooked on the company’s GPUs. Sure, Nvidia’s GPUs are solid even without DLSS, but the company’s own marketing claims DLSS with multi-frame generation can boost the frame rate of Cyberpunk 2077 from 28 FPS to 242 FPS. That’s an eight-fold improvement! Who wouldn’t want that?

But as some reviewers have noted, the boosts from DLSS aren’t always as impressive in real life as they are in marketing materials. And it’s often less powerful systems—like gaming laptops—that see the most modest benefits. So, I decided to test it out myself.

Here are my Nvidia DLSS 4 results on a gaming laptop. Keep reading for the exact laptop I used and the various gains (or lack thereof) I saw in a handful of different high-profile games.

The laptop

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