Alternative denoisers?

MajorDazFan

The Daz denoiser is doing a decent, I'll give it that! But I'm making animations and I'm currently letting it run for 200 itterations, which looks ok for the kind of work I'm doing.

But now that Nvidia is out with DLSS 3.5 with Ray Reconstruction, which is doing an amaing job of reconstructing ray traced images on the fly, and at an incredible speed at that! 

So I'm wondering if there's actually any other denoiser out there, that's better than Daz? I've been looking at Topaz, and Hitpaw too, but they're not doing the job when it comes to denoising that much noise. Do you guys know about any other progams? it doesn't have to be free!

markusmatern

I work with the Intel denoiser on almost all of my DAZ rendered images. Here is an older thread about it:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/316206/denoise-renders-and-save-a-lot-of-time-nvidia-not-reqd

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/438007/how-to-use-intel-denoiser

I think under most circumstances the Intel denoiser is better than the NVidia version, so I use it afterwards using the command line.