How to get DLSS 5 on AMD and Intel GPUs: mods run even on RX 6000, at a cost in FPS

This is the complete guide to DLSS 5: which graphics cards run it officially and through mods, which games have it, how many frames it costs, how to turn it on, what enthusiasts have done with it on AMD and Intel, and where the facts end and the rumours start. It is a living page: we update it every time a new game, driver or important mod lands, and the dated change log sits at the very end of the page.

The short version as of 8 November 2026. Officially, DLSS 5 is in two games, NBA 2K27 and Hogwarts Legacy, and only on RTX 50 cards. At 1440p it costs between 36 and 65 percent of your frame rate depending on the card. Everything else, from RTX 20 to Radeon and Intel integrated graphics, runs through mods built on a leaked library, and that is worth understanding before you install anything.

How to run DLSS 5 on your graphics card, step by step

Find your card first, then follow only that subsection:

• Radeon RX 9000 or RX 7000, game with FSR, XeSS or DLSS in its settings: AMDNR Launcher, one-click install.
• Radeon RX 9000, game without its own upscaler (Mafia III, most games from before 2020): PLAY ANYWHERE in the same launcher, or ReShade.
• Radeon RX 6000: HIP SDK 7.2 first, then AMDNR, NeuralHub or OpenNR.
• Intel Arc: NR-Setup on Windows.
• GeForce RTX 20, 30, 40: DLSS 5 Autopilot.
• GeForce RTX 50: nothing to install, it is a setting in the game.

One rule for every mod here: no games with anti-cheat. The mod drops its own library into the game folder, and to Easy Anti-Cheat or BattlEye that looks like tampering. The ban lands on your account, not on the modder's.

Radeon RX 9000 and RX 7000: AMDNR Launcher

The easiest route on Radeon right now. The launcher by 3zwr1 finds your games, installs an OptiScaler build with DLSS NR, picks the neural runtime for your card and can take it all out again. The runtimes and their weights come in its own downloads, so there is no NVIDIA library to hunt for. Current version on 8 November: Alpha 0.3.5.8 R17 of 8 November; the launcher updates itself first, then your games. Step-by-step setup, common errors and the comparison with OptiScaler are in our AMDNR Launcher guide.

What you need: Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.9.1 or newer, and about 2 GB of spare video memory at roughly 1080p render resolution. The game has to run on DirectX 12, DirectX 11 or Vulkan and offer an upscaler of its own: FSR 2 or later, XeSS or DLSS. RX 9000 and RX 7000 owners do not need the AMD HIP SDK or developer mode; the driver already has what it takes.

1. Update the driver. Check the version in AMD Software: 26.9.1 or newer. With an older driver AMDNR will not start the network.
2. Download the launcher. Get AMDNR-Launcher.exe only from the project's GitHub releases page, under Assets of the latest release. There are already plenty of lookalike "DLSS 5 for AMD" sites. The certificate is self-signed, so Windows SmartScreen warns on first launch: click "More info", then "Run anyway". The release notes list the file's SHA256 if you want to check it.
3. Find the game. The launcher reads Steam, Epic, Xbox, Ubisoft Connect, EA, GOG, Rockstar, Battle.net and Amazon Games libraries. If a game is missing, add its folder by hand; if it picked the wrong executable, point it at the right one with CHOOSE GAME .EXE.
4. Press INSTALL on the game's page. The launcher downloads the build (about 600 MB), picks the file name the mod loads under (usually dxgi.dll) and checks the result with its Doctor. If the page shows PLAY ANYWHERE instead of INSTALL, the game has no upscaler of its own: go to the next subsection.
5. Start the game with PLAY or the usual way and switch on an upscaler in its graphics settings: FSR, XeSS, or DLSS if the game lists it. Any quality mode will do. With no upscaler running, the network never hooks in, and that is the most common reason for "nothing changed".
6. Pick a runtime. On first launch the mod asks which neural runtime to use, lmxxf or danielblnc (answer with 1, 2 or Enter). On RX 9000 I would start with lmxxf: since 0.3.5.3 it is the default, it is faster and its picture sits closer to NVIDIA's. If you see a dark trail behind moving characters, try danielblnc. You can switch later in the menu, it applies after a restart. Since 0.3.5.7 the launcher also offers a third runtime for RX 9000 as a separate component, Mochizuki; in R17 it runs inside the game process, which according to the author lifted it from 13 to more than 28 network runs per second.
7. Press Insert for the menu and open the Neural tab. Home turns DLSS 5 on and off in the game, handy for comparing.

How to tell it works. Under the runtime name on the Neural tab there is a line like Running - 1920x1080 at 100% - NR 62/s - model 62/s - 15.3 ms. Running and a non-zero NR mean the network is working; the last number is how many milliseconds it takes from every frame. If it reads NR 0/s, an orange line below gives the reason, often with a button that fixes it.

If the frame rate is too low. The Preset buttons (Quality, Balanced, Performance) set the network resolution to 100, 85 and 70 percent. Under Performance there is Fast mode: the network runs one size step lower, about 29 percent less time by the author's measurement, with fine detail a touch softer. Model interleave runs the model every other frame and gives the biggest gain. When you are done, press Save Settings at the bottom of the menu, or everything resets on the next launch.

What to expect on the RX 9070 XT and RX 9070. According to the author, Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p with FSR Quality ran at 64 fps on an RX 9070 XT in version 0.3.5.2, and the network itself takes about 14 ms per frame at 1080p. The plain RX 9070 has 56 compute units against the XT's 64. I could not find measurements on it, so expect a noticeably lower number. Nobody has tested AMDNR independently yet.

Games without their own upscaler: PLAY ANYWHERE and ReShade

Mafia III, the older Assassin's Creed games, most things from before 2020 know neither FSR 2 nor DLSS, and a normal AMDNR install turns them down. There are two ways in.

PLAY ANYWHERE, RX 9000 only. A preview mode: the launcher starts the game and captures its window, the network works on the finished picture, and nothing is written into the game folder.

1. Set the game to windowed or borderless. The capture cannot see exclusive fullscreen.
2. Use a 1920x1080 window or smaller. At 1080p the network sees every pixel; a bigger window is first shrunk to its limit and then scaled back up.
3. Cap the game at 60-90 fps with its own limiter: every frame the capture shows is another run of the network.
4. Press PLAY ANYWHERE on the game's page. The first time, the launcher downloads the capture program, about 100 MB, then starts the game.
5. Insert opens the menu inside the capture, with an Anywhere tab: network size (Auto, 720, 900, 1080) and frame rate. New values take effect at the next launch.

A captured window has no depth buffer and no motion vectors, so the program has to guess the motion. Fast scenes can flicker or judder; network size 720 and a frame cap help. It is a workaround, and the picture is worse than in a game with a native upscaler.

OpenNR (until 19 October called dlss5-neural-amd), RX 6000 to 9000. zmodelerlover's project now has two routes, and its installer picks one per game: an OpenNR build of OptiScaler (recommended), which runs the network inside the game's DLSS, FSR or XeSS, or on the finished frame when there is no upscaler, in DirectX 9 to 12, Vulkan and OpenGL games; and a ReShade add-on for emulators, DirectX 8 and whatever the first route does not take. The runtime is chosen per game: danielblnc (RX 6000 to 9000), lmxxf (RX 9060 and 9070) or mochizuki (RX 9000; older cards experimental). Install it with OpenNR Installer: one .exe that finds your games, picks the renderer, downloads and checks every file and can take it all out again. In the game, Insert opens the OptiScaler route's menu (Neural tab) and Home opens ReShade (Add-ons tab, OpenNR). The renderer guess is usually right, not always: a wrong pick installs fine and then does nothing. Check the game's PCGamingWiki page first; each game card links to it.

Radeon RX 6000

First install AMD HIP SDK 7.2 from AMD's site: RX 6000 drivers only carry HIP 6.4, and without the SDK the log says HIP: amdhip64_7.dll failed to load. After that there are three routes, all on danielblnc's runtime: AMDNR from the top of this section (its own lmxxf runtime reaches RX 6000 only in 0.3.6), danielblnc's NeuralHub 0.8.0 from the next subsection (only neural rendering on RX 6000 for now; the author lists RDNA 2 as in testing) and OpenNR from the subsection above. Nobody has published RX 6000 frame rates yet.

The author's mod alone: DLSS-NR on AMD without the launcher

Since 0.8.0 of 17 October danielblnc's project comes as NeuralHub, a manager in the style of the AMDNR launcher, and it ports all of DLSS: neural rendering, upscaling, Ray Reconstruction and frame generation on RX 9000 and RX 7000, neural rendering only on RX 6000 for now. You need Windows 11, Adrenalin 26.1.1 or newer, a DirectX 12 game with DLSS, FSR or XeSS, and your own nvngx_dlssnr.dll 310.8.0.0 or later (nvngx_dlss.dll, nvngx_dlssd.dll and nvngx_dlssg.dll are optional, for the other features). Run NeuralHub_v0.8.0_setup.exe from the project's releases, import the library, let it scan your games and install the loader in the ones you want. In the game, switch on DLSS, FSR or XeSS and press End for the overlay. The author reports 90-100 fps at 1080p on an RX 9070 XT with the full model. Do not install this next to AMDNR: AMDNR already runs danielblnc's runtime, and two mods in one folder load the game twice.

Intel Arc

dlss-nr-on-intel runs DLSS 5 neural rendering on Intel Arc under Windows and Linux. Version 0.0.5 of 6 November supports Battlemage cards (Xe2: the integrated Arc 140V, B570, B580) and, experimentally since 0.0.4, the older Alchemist A-series. You need 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, your own nvngx_dlssnr.dll (310.9.16 carries both networks, A and B; 310.8 only A) and the Visual C++ x64 Redistributable. Python is no longer needed: since 0.0.4 it ships inside the archive.

1. Extract the ZIP into a folder of its own, for example C:\dlss-nr. When updating, first press Remove NR for each game in the old version's setup.
2. Run NR-Setup.exe, choose the DLL, the game's .exe and its API (Vulkan, DirectX 8-11 or DirectX 12) and press Install NR.
3. DirectX 12 games work through XeSS. If the game has its own XeSS, pick XeSS as the upscaler in its settings. If it has none, install OptiScaler, set it to XeSS, and NR's setup finds OptiScaler's XeSS (since 0.0.5).
4. Start the game the usual way, not as administrator. Home turns NR on and off, Insert opens the in-game panel: network A or B, render scale, effect strength, profiles and a frame counter.
5. Try the hogwarts profile (0.0.5). It copies the look NVIDIA chose for the official DLSS 5 update of Hogwarts Legacy: half the tone change of standard, a little less added detail and softer faces and skin. It works in any game, so compare the two in the panel.

What to expect: on the integrated Arc 140V the author gets 25-26 NR frames per second in Hogwarts Legacy at 1280x720, and 51-52 on screen with the game's frame generation. An Arc A770 owner reported about 22 fps in Star Wars Battlefront II and 21-22 in Euro Truck Simulator 2 at 1920x1080 with network B and render scale 0.4, and 17-18 in Alien: Isolation (version 0.0.3.1, before the 0.0.4 speed-up of up to 19 percent). At full render scale the same card drops to about 6 fps. Games with anti-cheat refuse NR, so stay with single-player and offline. Problems go to the project's issues together with the file that Save report writes.

GeForce RTX 20, 30 and 40

Use DLSS 5 Autopilot, version 2.1.0 of 2 November. It scans your library, picks one of nine install routes for DirectX 8 to 12, Vulkan and OpenGL, games without DLSS of their own included, installs the library build that matches your card and, after you play, reads the logs to tell you whether it worked. Start at a 75 percent work area: the author says that costs about half of 100. On RTX 20 and 30 it uses community FP16 builds; at 100 percent they take about half your frame rate by the author's estimate, and Tom's Hardware saw single-digit frame rates in most games on Ampere. On driver 616.64 and newer some routes crash in a good number of games: the tool works around that where it can, and rolling back to 616.56 is the other fix. DLSS 5 Swapper, which we used to recommend here, disappeared from GitHub on 18 October. More on Autopilot below, in the section on RTX 40, 30 and 20.

GeForce RTX 50

Driver 616.64 or newer and a game with official DLSS 5: NBA 2K27 (DLSS Neural Rendering under Video Settings) or, since 5 November, Hogwarts Legacy (off by default; switch it on in the graphics settings or with Shift+Alt+B). No mods needed. The details are in "How to turn on DLSS 5 officially" below. In other games RTX 50 owners use Autopilot too.

If it does not work

• The game crashes right after launch. Press REPAIR / UPDATE in the launcher, and its Doctor will tell you what is wrong. By hand, try another file name instead of dxgi.dll: winmm.dll, version.dll, dbghelp.dll, winhttp.dll, one at a time. Resident Evil Requiem crashes after 15-60 seconds without REFramework.
• The menu shows NR 0/s. Read the orange line under the runtime. The usual causes: the game's upscaler is off, or an old danielblnc install is still in the folder.
• Laptop or PC with integrated graphics, and NR never starts. The game launched on the integrated GPU. Windows Settings, System, Display, Graphics: add the game's .exe, Options, "High performance", restart the game. The GPU line under Neural, Diagnostics shows which card runs the network.
• Black screen. Update to AMDNR 0.3.5.3: it fixes the black screen with danielblnc 0.6.0, in Black Myth: Wukong and in Resident Evil Requiem.
• The screen flashes and the driver resets (error 887A0005). The card cannot keep up with the network. Lower the network resolution with the Balanced or Performance preset. After eight resets in a row AMDNR switches DLSS 5 off for the rest of the session by itself.
• Settings do not stick in a game installed under C:\Program Files. Since 0.3.5.3 AMDNR saves them to %LOCALAPPDATA%\AMDNR\settings; older versions lost them.
• I want it gone. UNINSTALL in the launcher removes everything the mod placed or wrote while the game ran. Without the launcher, delete the mod's files from the game folder, the renamed dxgi.dll first.
• Nothing helped. Save report under Neural, Diagnostics, or COLLECT LOGS in the launcher, packs every log into one zip. Take it to the #bug-report channel on the project's Discord.

The short answer: will DLSS 5 run on your graphics card

If you have an RTX 50 card you do not need to install anything beyond a driver and the game. On any other card it comes down to whether you are prepared to deal with mods that carry real risks. Those get their own section further down.

What DLSS 5 is, and how it differs from DLSS 4.5

Every earlier DLSS worked on a finished frame: it raised the resolution or generated in-between frames. DLSS 5 steps in earlier. It takes the game's colour, motion vectors and 3D scene data, and a neural network adds lighting and materials on top: light passing through ears, settling on skin and hair. NVIDIA calls it 3D-Guided Neural Rendering and describes the model as a one-step diffusion model, the same family as image generators, except it runs in a single pass and in real time.

The collage above cuts one scene down the player's face: DLSS 5 off on the left, on on the right. The difference shows in skin, the shadows under the brows and the depth of the face, while the stands and the kit barely change. ComputerBase says the same: a big gain on faces and self-shadowing, and in normal play from a mid distance the difference comes down to slightly better contrast.

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Timeline: from the reveal to mods on Radeon

Games with DLSS 5: two out, more promised

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As of 5 November official DLSS 5 is in two games: NBA 2K27 and Hogwarts Legacy, which got it with the 5 November patch. NVIDIA lists War Thunder (mid-November) and Where Winds Meet (23 November) next. The list the company named back on 16 March looks like this:

Do not mix this list up with DLSS 4.5. NVIDIA's September news puts Control Resonant, Gears of War: E-Day, the Witcher 3 remaster and others next to NBA 2K27, but those have DLSS 4.5 upscaling and frame generation, not neural rendering. When a second DLSS 5 game ships, it goes straight into the update log at the top.

How many frames DLSS 5 costs: measurements across the RTX 50 range

NVIDIA names the price itself: on average across RTX 50 cards and resolutions, DLSS 5 costs 50 to 60 percent of your frame rate. The measurements agree. ComputerBase tested NBA 2K27 with DLSS 4.5 upscaling on Balanced: at 1440p the RTX 5090 loses 36 percent, the RTX 5080 about half, the RTX 5070 almost two thirds. At 4K even the RTX 5090 drops from 179 to 77 fps.

Wccftech measured DLSS 5 in a game that does not support it officially on 29 September. In The Witcher 3 Remastered, with DLSS 5 injected through Lecram's mod, an RTX 5090 at 4K with path tracing and no frame generation ran at 50 fps without DLSS 5 and 35 with it, a 30 percent drop. With 6x frame generation it was 180-183 fps against 245-247. The mod itself puts the network's cost at 8.7 milliseconds per frame at 4K.

Why the price is so high, and why upscaling helps less than usual: the model has a near-fixed cost for every output frame, and it scales with output resolution rather than internal resolution. Digital Foundry measured about 8 milliseconds per frame at 4K on an RTX 5090, half of the entire budget at 60 fps.

Tom's Hardware ran the whole range at native resolution, with no upscaling and no frame generation. For choosing a card, the picture is simple:

Latency gets less attention than it deserves. With frame generation it rises because frames are slotted in between real ones. DLSS 5 has no such mechanism, but the model itself eats into every frame. On an RTX 5070 at 1440p latency went from 20 to 39 milliseconds, on an RTX 5060 from 34 to 63. Fine for NBA 2K27, not for a shooter.

And on power: Tom's Hardware measured an RTX 5090 Founders Edition drawing 517 W instead of 316 at 1440p with DLSS 5, and sitting at its 575 W ceiling at 4K. An MSI Lightning Z with two power connectors reached 848 W at 4K and came out 20 percent faster. The first measurements are broken down in our piece on the real cost of DLSS 5.

A word on NVIDIA's big numbers, like 370 fps at 4K on an RTX 5090. That is true, but with 6X frame generation and Performance upscaling, so five frames in six are generated and the card is really rendering about 62. If you want to know what your monitor shows, look at 370. If you want to know what the card is drawing, look at 62.

How to turn on DLSS 5 officially

Hogwarts Legacy, since the 5 November patch: an RTX 50 card and driver 616.64 or newer. DLSS 5 is off by default; turn it on in the graphics settings or with Shift+Alt+B. On an RTX 5090 at 4K ComputerBase measured 75.6 fps without it and 57.2 with it; details in our Hogwarts Legacy test summary.

DLSS 5 has no separate installer and never will, just like every DLSS version before it. You cannot force it into other games through the NVIDIA App either: according to VideoCardz, NVIDIA said plainly there will be no such switch and support depends on developers. How to update ordinary DLSS in any game is covered in our guide to DLSS in almost any game.

DLSS 5 myths doing the rounds

DLSS 5 on RTX 40, 30 and 20: official status and mods

NVIDIA's official position on RTX 40, from its statement to Wccftech: the company is tuning performance on RTX 50 first, with model updates expected this autumn, and only then plans to expand support to RTX 40. There is no date. For RTX 30 and RTX 20 there are no plans at all.

Enthusiasts did not wait. Every mod below runs on the same library that leaked with the NBA 2K27 build, and nearly all of them expect you to source that file yourself. We only link to the projects' GitHub pages: lookalike sites have already appeared around them.

DLSS 5 Swapper: gone from GitHub since 18 October

On October 18, 2026 the DLSS 5 Swapper repository and its author's profile disappeared from GitHub, for reasons nobody has explained. There is no official download right now. Do not grab copies from other sites or lookalike "mirrors": names like this are a common cover for malware. On RTX 20-40, DLSS5-Autopilot in the next section still does the job.

By rakanki911, version 2.2.9 from 29 September. It finds games in Steam, Epic, GOG and Xbox, backs them up and installs DLSS 5 in one click. It has several routes: through a game's own DLSS, through OptiScaler, or through ReShade for games with no DLSS at all, including DirectX 8 and 9, OpenGL and emulators such as PCSX2 and RPCS3. RTX 20-40 cards need a modified library the user sources themselves. The author warns that on the official 616.64 driver and newer the modified routes may crash, and that Windows Defender may remove the unsigned files. More in our Swapper article.

DLSS 5 Autopilot: picks the method itself and can lower the cost

By Kizzuwatnaa, version 2.1.0 of 2 November. It scans your library, picks one of nine install routes, launches the game and checks which libraries actually loaded; 2.1.0 added gitc-uplift, a route for every API from Direct3D 9 to 12, Vulkan and OpenGL, 32- and 64-bit. Builds are signed, and it needs an RTX 20 or newer. On driver 616.64 and newer some routes crash in a good number of games; the tool pins an older add-on there, and rolling back to 616.56 is the other fix. The useful part is the work area (model resolution): per the author, at 75 percent the effect costs roughly half as much as at 100, and at 50 percent a quarter. The image gets simpler as you go down.

Running it before the upscaler: how to halve the cost

The community's most important finding. Officially DLSS 5 runs after the upscaler, at full output resolution. The Neural Upstream and OptiScaler-DLSSNR-PreSR mods move the neural pass in front of the upscaler, to internal resolution. User measurements: in Assassin's Creed Shadows on an RTX 4080 at 4K with DLSS Performance, 63 fps without the effect, 31 with the standard method and about 50 with the early pass, figures reported by VideoCardz. On an RTX 5070 Ti at 4K a Reddit user got 180, 80 and 122 fps respectively, as reported by Wccftech. Facial detail gets softer in exchange.

DLSS5-Patcher and OptiScaler with DLSS NR

DLSS5-Patcher by MRHRTZ, version 1.2.1 from 6 September, installs ReShade 6.8.0 with the DLSS 5 add-on or works through OptiScaler, and handles old DirectX 8 and 9 games through dgVoodoo2. NVIDIA RTX cards only. OptiScaler_DLSSNR by Dagherbou adds the neural pass on top of any upscaler, DLSS, FSR or XeSS, with its own model resolution slider. How OptiScaler itself works is covered in our OptiScaler Client guide.

DLSS Unlocked and FP16 builds for RTX 20 and 30

DLSS Unlocked by ShyVortex, version 0.9.31 from 25 September, bundles DLSS 5 and frame generation for RTX 20, 30 and 40 in a single package. One caveat: the package now ships a modified NVIDIA library itself, which is legally a much greyer area, so we are not linking to it. How it came about is in our breakdown.

For RTX 20 and 30, developer ShortFuse made FP16 builds of the library: Turing and Ampere lack the hardware FP8 the model uses on RTX 40 and 50. Results are weak so far. Tom's Hardware reports most games on Ampere dropping to single-digit frame rates, with only top cards reaching 40 in a few games. Users report 7 fps in Cyberpunk 2077 on an RTX 3080 Ti.

A second graphics card for DLSS 5

The oddest mod: MGPU Bridge hands the neural pass to a second GPU. The author claims a 127 percent gain in The Blood of Dawnwalker at 1080p with DLSS Ultra Performance on a pair of RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB cards. That is the modder's own measurement, reported by Tom's Hardware and PC Gamer, with no independent check.

DLSS5-NR for Borderless Gaming: no NVIDIA library

Andrew Sampson, who makes Borderless Gaming, took another route. His DLSS5-NR effect, version 0.2.1 from 29 September, never calls NVIDIA's library and leaves game files alone: the app captures the game window and runs the finished image through a network based on DLSS 5, ported to its effect format and quantized for weaker cards. You install it from the effects editor by pasting the repository address, and sliders set strength, lighting and tone. The author says even an RTX 3090 holds around 30 fps, depending on the game and settings. There are no measurements with stated conditions yet, and the author says nothing about Radeon or Arc. This is not NVIDIA's DLSS 5 but an effect modelled on it, so the image can look different. Wccftech was first to report it on 30 September.

DLSS 5 on AMD graphics cards: a mod, a rumour and AMD's own path

AMD does not officially work with DLSS 5 and has not made a single statement about it. An enthusiast does: the DLSS-NR on AMD project by danielblnc appeared on 3 September, DLSS 5 launch day, and gathered more than 1,500 stars on GitHub in three weeks. The author wrote his own neural network runtime in HIP, the project contains no NVIDIA code, and users bring the library themselves.

AMD's own answer exists in three forms right now, and none of them can be installed today. The first is a rumour: leaker Kepler_L2 wrote on 16 September that AMD will have its own DLSS 5-style "neural lighting", probably limited to RDNA 5 because "this stuff is pretty heavy". The second is AMD's ECCV research paper, where a network fills in bounced light, which we covered in a separate piece. The third is FSR Redstone, where the promised Radiance Caching has sat at technical preview 0.9.0 since December 2025.

AMDNR: the same DLSS NR, in one click

AMDNR by 3zwr1 is an OptiScaler build that hooks DLSS NR up to the danielblnc runtime (or lmxxf's) and installs through a one-click launcher. It has an Anywhere mode that writes nothing into the game folder, and XeSS frame generation up to 6X. Tom's Hardware, VideoCardz and Notebookcheck have covered it. In Alpha 0.3.5.2 of 4 October the author says Cyberpunk 2077 on an RX 9070 XT went from 52.2 to 64.0 fps (1440p, FSR Quality); the release also fixed The Witcher 3 and added the integrated Radeon 760M as experimental. On RX 6000 AMDNR runs danielblnc's runtime (with AMD's HIP SDK); only its own lmxxf runtime is still planned for those cards, in 0.3.6. The current build is R17 of 8 November.

Intel, consoles and the cloud

On Intel the mod is no longer only a proof of concept: in single-player games it holds roughly 20-26 fps at 720p on the integrated 140V and at 1080p with a reduced render scale on an A770. That is enough to see the effect, not to play smoothly. Setup is in the step-by-step section above; how the project started is in our Intel story. The most realistic way to see DLSS 5 without an RTX 50 card today is still GeForce NOW.

Why people are angry about DLSS 5

The argument is not about frame rates but about who decides how a game looks. In the March demo Grace from Resident Evil Requiem came out with a changed face, and the main charge was that the network repaints what artists made on purpose. The reveal video ended up at 83.7 percent dislikes. Jensen Huang first said critics were "completely wrong", then a week later on Lex Fridman's podcast said he could see where they were coming from, because he does not love "AI slop" himself. Capcom told investors it would not put AI-generated assets into its games, but did not reject DLSS 5 outright.

NVIDIA's answer is the developer tooling shown above: effect strength, colour grading and per-object masks, so an artist decides where and how the network steps in. The company stresses that the model is deterministic and trained to preserve artistic intent. Digital Foundry tested that in practice: in realistic NBA 2K27 the effect works best, while mods on stylised games such as Final Fantasy VII Rebirth produce overdone faces that clash with the art style.

What to avoid

Where things stand on 8 November 2026

Update log

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