> DLSS 5 on a 5090 halves the frame rate and requires a 5090. And it can only do a single style - gritty, high contrast lighting photorealism.

The technology is very new and currently in its infancy. I do believe it's the future of computer graphics though, where instead of doing "real" photorealistic geometry and lighting, software can render a very simplified scene and have a good enough photo-realistic filter applied to it so that most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Obviously, I believe it'll be flexible enough to do things other than photo-realism in the future.

> In 10 years will new GPUs primarily be AIPUs? Sure, probably, but they'll still be discrete and they'll still have significant raster and ray tracing pipelines to provide the basis of rendering.

I think we have different definitions of "discrete" here. In my mind AIPUs are the opposite of discrete. I might be wrong here, but I always interpreted this term as a standalone GPU unit with its own onboard memory — a thing that currently fits into a PCIE slot.

I guess I understood "on its way out" to be a shorter timeframe than you intended, sorry!