Soo uhh..is DLSS even doing anything?

TLDR: I turned off DLSS and now my frames are better and no more weird artifacting.

Like a lot of people on PC, Ive been struggling to get good frames with this game. Ive probably tried every possible combination of settings and still hover around 60fps but dipping down to 50 pretty often. I turned off dlss last night just to see, now Im at 60-70 fps and now theres no more weird artifacts when getting close to walls or that weird haze/fuzzy/bluryness.

Just wanted to see if anyone else has tried turning dlss off completely and getting better performance? Cause rn for myself it seems like its upscaling since there's the artifacting, but zero performance gain? The artifacting from the dlss doesn't even seem like its dlss 3 or 4 or 4.5 cause I don't get any artifacting at all in any other modern title. This is a very familiar artifacting from the early days of dlss. I remember these same splotchy artifacts in certain lighting scenarios and when you got to close to walls back when Control first came out and they were still on the Dlss 1 (specifically when ray tracing was on). I even see twinkle artifacting going on in the black parts of the main menu if I look really close.