$899 gets you a fully fledged DDR5 gaming PC in Best Buy's Labor Day sales — save $300 off the iBuypower Slate PC powered by Intel's B570 graphics with 10GB of VRAM
The iBuypower Slate prebuilt is $899 at Best Buy in its Labor Day sale, $300 off list price. It targets 1080p gaming with an Intel Arc B570 (10GB VRAM), Core Ultra 5 225F, 16GB DDR5, and 1TB NVMe SSD. Tom's Hardware positions the B570 near the RTX 3060 12GB in benchmarks and notes prebuilts currently avoid high memory/storage prices.
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In this technical preview, TechPowerUp digs into Nvidia's Gamescom briefing by DLSS research lead Edward Liu and content technology director Gabriele Leone, including inline Q&A. It explains that DLSS 5 adds photorealistic lighting, subsurface scattering, contact shadows, and cloth sheen on top of the rendered frame, but cannot change the underlying geometry. Developers are given controls to adjust, apply, or disable the effect. The piece notes that unlike upscaling or frame generation, neural rendering has no ground-truth correct frame, making it harder to verify and more dependent on artistic intent.
DLSS 5 launches this week starting with NBA 2K27
KitGuru covers Nvidia's official DLSS 5 launch, noting NBA 2K27 is the first supported game when it releases September 3 on PC. DLSS 5 is available on RTX 50-series GPUs, with no official support for RTX 40 or RTX 30 cards. The article explains the shift from performance-focused DLSS to visual-fidelity neural rendering and notes the feature set will expand over time.
Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 will launch September 3 with NBA2K27, company shares first benchmarks — available on all RTX 50 series GPUs, laptops, and GeForce NOW
Tom's Hardware reports Nvidia's official DLSS 5 launch on September 3 alongside NBA 2K27, with support for RTX 50-series desktop and mobile GPUs and GeForce Now. The company also released its first in-house 4K benchmarks for the RTX 5090 and 5080. Nvidia frames DLSS 5 as '3D-guided Neural Rendering' that preserves geometry while adding generative lighting and material detail, but it remains controversial and resource-intensive. Older GPUs are not officially supported, though modders have ported the leaked DLL to older cards.
Nvidia’s DLSS 5, explained
The Verge's explainer digs into what DLSS 5 actually does, following the backlash to early March demonstrations. The author says an official Nvidia briefing and hands-on time with the web-leaked version finally make the picture clear. It addresses the 'AI slop' criticism and Nvidia's messaging that DLSS 5 'preserves artistic intent,' 'respects the rendered frame,' and gives developers full control. It is an explanatory piece rather than a benchmark-driven review.