Nvidia's DLSS 5 Brings Neural Rendering to RTX 50-Series GPUs
Nvidia announces DLSS 5, using real-time neural rendering to deliver photorealistic lighting in games this fall.
Nvidia just pulled the curtain back on DLSS 5, and it's a big one. The latest version of the company's AI-powered upscaling tech introduces a real-time neural rendering model that generates photorealistic lighting directly within game frames. It's arriving this fall, exclusive to RTX 50-series GPUs.
Digital Foundry's Richard Leadbetter got hands-on with four games running the new tech, calling it a massive technological leap for graphics. Rather than simply upscaling lower-resolution images, DLSS 5 effectively uses a neural network to reconstruct how light behaves in a scene — in real time.
This is Nvidia doubling down on AI as the backbone of modern game rendering. Each DLSS generation has pushed more compute onto dedicated AI hardware, and version 5 takes that philosophy further than ever. RTX 50-series owners will be the first to see results when it ships later this year.