{
  "id": 15411173,
  "title": "Official DLSS 5 running on unsupported games delivers up to 90% better performance than the leaked version",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/official-dlss-5-running-on-unsupported-games-delivers-up-to-90-better",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-18T12:45:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tom's Hardware",
    "slug": "tom-s-hardware",
    "url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/modders-used-the-official-dlss-5-release-on-unsupported-games-and-are-seeing-up-to-90-percent-better-performance-than-the-leaked-dlss-5-nvidia-says-new-nr-model-uses-20-percent-less-vram-and-processes-neural-workloads-up-to-2x-faster"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Nvidia's latest DLSS 5 version, released alongside NBA 2K27, has been extracted and tested on unsupported games by modders. The new Neural Rendering (NR) model shows up to 40% improvement over its predecessor, while some games like The Witcher 3 demonstrate up to 90% better performance with the updated NR model. DLSS NR is resource-intensive, requiring less VRAM and processing neural rendering workloads up to 2x faster. Nvidia achieved this by reducing the AI model size by 24% and VRAM usage by 20% at 4K. The modding community shared a video showcasing the new DLSS 5 model's performance improvements in The Witcher 3, compared to the older version. DLSS 5 can be run on older RTX GPUs with modifications, as Nvidia plans to officially release it to RTX 40-series GPUs soon.",
  "summary": "Nvidia's latest DLSS Neural Renderer, extracted from NBA 2K27 (again), is being tested on unsupported games and shows up to a 90% performance gain over the previous NR model.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "XDA Developers",
        "title": "I gave my retro DOS games the DLSS 5 treatment, and the results were all over the place",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/i-gave-my-retro-dos-games-the-dlss-5-treatment-and-the-results-were",
        "published": "2026-10-16T22:00:18.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}