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Nvidia Doubles DLSS 5 Performance, Claims Up to 40% Faster Frame Rates

Nvidia says its updated DLSS 5 model runs twice as fast as the version shipped in September, cutting 4K VRAM use by 20% and lifting frame rates by 30% to 40%. The update arrives October 16 for RTX 5000 GPUs, RTX Spark laptops and GeForce Now, with Hogwarts Legacy support due November 5.

AI News Feed · 2026-10-15 02:34

DLSS 5, Nvidia's neural-rendering technology, made its official debut in NBA 2K27 just over a month ago. When it was previewed in March 2026, the technology needed a pair of RTX 5090 GPUs to run. Nvidia improved the performance of the AI model fivefold for the NBA 2K27 release; with this latest update, TechRadar reports it is now ten times more performant than that original baseline.

Nvidia said the October update shrinks the model footprint by 24%, to roughly 118 million parameters, while cutting 4K VRAM usage by 20%. The company described the result as half the GPU overhead of the September launch version while maintaining comparable visual fidelity. Testing in NBA 2K27 translates those changes into frame rate boosts in the order of 30% to 40%.

Game support is also expanding. Nvidia announced that DLSS 5 arrives for Hogwarts Legacy on November 5 and for Where Winds Meet in the "near future," though no specific date was given for the latter. DLSS 5 comes to RTX Remix on October 23, which allows older games to receive a graphical overhaul with neural rendering.

Separately from DLSS 5, Nvidia is introducing a new performance mode for frame generation. The company says the mode uses a faster and lighter algorithm and can deliver up to 35% better frame rates with an RTX 5060. It appears as "Preset C" in the frame-generation override section of the Nvidia app.

One of the main criticisms of DLSS 5 has been the size of the performance hit and the requirement of a powerful RTX 5000 GPU to run it smoothly, at a time when prices for those cards are rising quickly. TechRadar reported that a growing number of gamers nonetheless accept the frame-rate cost for the visual uplift, while skeptics would prefer Nvidia not to use AI in this way. The publication also noted that these early optimizations are where the largest gains are carved out, and that further performance improvements are likely to become more modest as the model is refined.

Questions remain about older hardware. One Reddit user asked: "Great so could we get official support on the [RTX] 40 series now since the new model is so efficient?" Nvidia has promised that after tuning RTX 5000 performance it will work on bringing support to the last-generation RTX 4000 range, though TechRadar's writer expects that to arrive no earlier than early next year.

The new frame-generation preset has drawn some criticism for causing more glitching and artifacts while raising frame rates by a decent margin. Not all users report the issue, and how visible it is may be subjective or depend on the specific game. The preset is expected to be useful for laptop gamers seeking higher frame rates from relatively modest Nvidia GPUs, and appears tied to the release of RTX Spark laptops.