A Modder Managed To Get NVIDIA DLSS 5 Running On A Web Browser

NVIDIA's DLSS 5 upscaling technology has been making headlines recently, but not in the way one might expect. Modders have been working diligently to make the technology function on GPU generations older than the Blackwell-powered RTX 50 Series, with one individual reportedly managing to get it to run on two RTX 5060 Ti cards simultaneously.

Recently, a modder named MAAN posted a functional demonstration of DLSS 5 running directly within a web browser on X, with the source code for the demo soon to be released on GitHub. It is important to note that this is an unofficial modification; NVIDIA currently only provides DLSS 5 through its NGX interface and Streamline DSK, which serves as an intermediary between applications and graphics APIs like DirectX and Vulkan, delivering additional tools such as motion vectors, depth data, and the rendered image to DLSS.

MAAN's DLSS 5 web demo appears to have circumvented the usual restrictions, but it seems the upscaler was not intended to function efficiently with the neural renderer. When tested on a laptop equipped with an RTX 5070 Ti, the DLSS 5 Neural Rendering demo took a couple of seconds to fully render, indicating that the neural renderer might not have been optimized for this purpose.

MAAN has chosen not to share any technical details on how they bypassed NVIDIA's standard DLSS binaries, which typically rely on a native bridge. It remains unclear whether they converted browser-rendered resources for processing outside of the browser. Nonetheless, interested individuals can attempt the demo themselves using the provided link.