Official DLSS 5 running on unsupported games delivers up to 90% better performance than the leaked version

Tom's Hardware 2026-10-18

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.

Link:

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

From feeds:

Cybersecurity by kevin ยป Tom's Hardware

Tags:

components

Authors:

editors@tomshardware.com (Jhet Borja) , Jhet Borja

Date tagged:

10/18/2026, 09:46

Date published:

10/18/2026, 08:45