NVIDIA has officially confirmed that DLSS 5 will be available from 3 September (4 September for us) onwards. The very first title that will be leveraging the technology is what has already been known since the first leak: NBA 2K27.
NVIDIA’s official confirmation puts to rest the rumours and leaks that have occurred with DLSS 5 since last week, after a DLL file was discovered in what was now clearly believed to be an early access version of NBA 2K27.
To recap, DLSS 5 introduces the new Neural Rendering upscaling engine that is intended to provide game developers with varying levels of details on a subject, scene, or environment, all at once. Basically, developers will be able to adjust the intensity of detail for their game, to either enhance or soften the level of realism.
Performance-wise, NVIDIA says that DLSS 5 with its Multiframe Generation enabled at 6x on NBA 2K27 will allow an RTX 5090 to maintain more than 300 fps on average at 4K, and nearly 600 fps at 1440p. At Full HD, it says the RTX 5070 can maintain an average of 385 fps with the same settings.
Since its discovery, a modding community, RenoDX, put the next generation AI upscaler through its paces, making it unofficially run on a bunch of other titles, as well as older generation RTX GPUs, including the RTX 40, 30 and recently, the 20 series.
Regarding getting DLSS 5 to work on an RTX 30 Series, one modder from the aforementioned community did manage to get it running on their RTX 3080, but unsurprisingly, getting Neural Rendering to run on an architecture that isn’t Blackwell means that performance will take a hit. In their case, the modder saw their FPS on Deep Rock Galactic go from an average of 130 fps to 4 fps the minute Neural Rendering was enabled.
Once again, DLSS 5 will currently see limited availability with NBA 2K27. NVIDIA hasn’t officially specified which other games will have it, but our guess is that future titles like The Witcher IV and current titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and Resident Evil Requiem may be on the wait list.
In the mean time, gamers will have to contend with DLSS 4.5, which is scheduled to roll out to multiple titles this month, which include 007: First Light and Control Resonant, the sequel to 2019’s Control.
(Additional source: Videocardz)
