NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling)

NVIDIA's AI-powered upscaling technology that renders games at lower resolution and uses neural networks to reconstruct near-native image quality at much higher frame rates.

CUDA Cores

NVIDIA's term for the parallel processing units in their GPUs. More CUDA cores generally means more rendering and compute power. AMD's equivalent are Stream Processors.

Running AI Locally

Running large language models and AI on your own hardware instead of cloud services. Performance depends on VRAM, RAM bandwidth, and quantization — not CPU speed.

GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)

A specialized processor designed for parallel computation, primarily used for rendering graphics but increasingly important for AI and compute workloads.

VRAM (Video RAM)

Dedicated memory on a graphics card used to store textures, frame buffers, and render data. More VRAM allows higher resolutions and more detailed textures.

Ray Tracing

A rendering technique that simulates how light physically behaves — bouncing, reflecting, and refracting — to produce photorealistic lighting, shadows, and reflections in games.