NVIDIA Confirms DLSS 5 Support Extends To RTX 40 GPUs, But First Focusing On Model Optimization on RTX 50 Series

Key Points:

• NVIDIA has launched DLSS 5 technology with NBA 2K27 as the first game to support 3D-Guided Neural Rendering, initially targeting RTX 50 series GPUs based on the Blackwell architecture.
• DLSS 5 is NVIDIA's most computationally demanding AI model, but significant optimizations have improved its performance by 5x since its March unveiling, now running efficiently across all RTX 50 GPUs.
• NVIDIA plans to extend DLSS 5 support to RTX 40 series GPUs (Ada Lovelace architecture) after fully tuning the model on RTX 50 GPUs, with further performance improvements expected later this year.
• Future optimizations could reduce the performance impact of DLSS 5 from the current 50-60% to around 10-15%, enabling smoother gameplay without resorting to lower-quality upscaling modes.
• There is potential for DLSS 5 support to expand to older GPU generations like RTX 30 and possibly RTX 20 series in the future, following NVIDIA's history of model tuning and community-driven unofficial support.