Nvidia DLSS 5 confirmed to launch later this year with neural rendering

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Nvidia has officially shown off DLSS 5.0 at GTC 2026. It uses an entirely new neural rendering model to radically transform images. RTX 50 series GPU owners will be able to try it out this fall.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-DLSS-5-confirmed-to-launch-later-this-year-with-neural-rendering.1251720.0.html

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Digital Foundry states that Nvidia had to use two RTX 5090 GPUs in tandem for the DLSS 5 demo. This was likely necessary to run the games at their maximum potential without any VRAM bottlenecks.

This means that the 3 GB dense GDDR7 chips, instead of the current 2 GB ones, are coming to all GPUs (either the SUPER refresh, or the RTX 60 series next year) (they are already being used in the 5090 Laptop (24 GB VRAM), which is the same 256-bit chip that is used for the RTX 5080 desktop (16 GB VRAM)), because all these features (upscaling, frame-generation, raytracing / pathtracing, ..) require VRAM. Still crazy that 2 5090 were used (2 * 32 GB VRAM).

DLSS 5 will be coming to RTX 50 series devices this fall, with no word about its availability on older graphics cards.

Meanwhile AMD is quiet about the leaked and working FSR INT8 on RDNA3 GPUs:

Unfortunately, the iGPU is not slated to get an RDNA5 upgrade, with numerous rumours stating it will stick with RDNA 3.5.

RDNA4 would have been ok, as it does support hardare-based, DLSS-like, upscaling (FSR4), but RDNA3.5 does not (AMD is also ignoring INT8 upscaling, which is still a huge improvement): youtube.com/watch?v=VPMOjdvmHMk ("FSR4 on RDNA3 on Windows!!! How To Guide and Side by Sides Tested on RX 7800 XT")

No at least RDNA4, no buy.

And look at that, another embarrassment for AMD: youtube.com/watch?v=v70p700D94U ("AMD's Latest Showcase Shows How Far Behind They Really Are /Rant - Crimson Desert Ray Regeneration")

Including RDNA2 and RDNA3 users still being upset because still no FSR4 INT8 on RDNA3:

.., at least the INT8 version not being available on their GPUs, despite the fact we know it absolutely does work.

Regardless, it is too early to draw conclusions because DLSS 5 is likely not finished, and Nvidia could be actively polishing it before a wider launch.

Exactly, like with frame-gen, where at least a 60 FPS base frame-rate is recommended, but then one doesn't need frame-gen in the first place (more on this on YouTube/Hardware Unboxed).