NVIDIA has officially confirmed that the company is working to bring DLSS 5 neural rendering to the previous-generation GeForce RTX 40-Series “Ada Lovelace.” Previously, it was believed that DLSS 5 technology would be exclusive to the latest GeForce RTX 50-Series “Blackwell” and future models, without looking back. As NVIDIA continues to focus on hardware-software cooptimization, we now have official confirmation that the GeForce RTX 40-Series will also receive a DLSS 5 port. However, the launch of DLSS 5 on the GeForce RTX 40-Series is secondary, as NVIDIA is still preparing and optimizing performance for the GeForce RTX 50-Series to ensure that the model won’t significantly impact the final game performance, despite reportedly being very compute-heavy.NVIDIADLSS 5 is our most computationally demanding model to date. Since we initially announced it in March, we’ve achieved a 5X performance gain and there’s more to come. Our current focus is on optimizing performance for the GeForce RTX 50 Series with model updates expected later this fall. Once RTX 50 Series performance is more fully tuned, we plan to work on expanding official support to the GeForce RTX 40 Series.
Officially, DLSS 5 launches with 2K Games’ latest NBA 2K27, which goes live today. It is supported on all GeForce RTX 50-Series GPUs, RTX 50 laptops, and GeForce NOW, allowing gamers to enjoy the benefits of neural rendering. For now, DLSS 5 is optimized for “Blackwell’s” fifth-generation Tensor cores, while support for the fourth-generation Tensor cores in “Ada Lovelace” is still being optimized. Readers may recall that NVIDIA initially used two GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs for DLSS 5 demos, later settling on a single GPU with optimizations. For last-generation GPUs to achieve good performance, we will need to wait a bit longer.
