DLSS 5 Officially Goes Live September 3 With NBA 2K27, Exclusive to RTX 50-series "Blackwell" GPUs
At a Gamescom technical briefing, NVIDIA said DLSS 5 will be RTX 50-series-only, with no fallback for older GPUs. The announcement matches prior findings from a leaked build. Modders have already gotten parts running on RTX 40/30/20-series hardware, with RTX 4090 suffering roughly 36-39 percent performance drop in Control and RTX 30-series seeing larger collapses.
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