// THE VERGE — INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE
Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 arrives September 3rd and requires serious GPU horsepower
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DLSS 5 is almost here, but only for NBA 2K27, and only officially for 50-series RTX GPUs.
DLSS 5 is almost here, but only for NBA 2K27, and only officially for 50-series RTX GPUs.
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Nvidia is officially launching DLSS 5 this week, following a divisive announcement in March where we likened the AI upscaling tech to a “real-time generative AI filter for video games” and “motion smoothing for video games, but worse.” DLSS 5 will officially be available on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now cloud gaming, though the only game with the tech so far is NBA 2K27 — which is launching September 3rd at 9PM PT on PC.
When it was announced, Nvidia lauded DLSS 5 as “the company’s most significant breakthrough in computer graphics since the debut of real-time ray tracing in 2018,” and highlighted how the tech uses AI to make games look more realistic by enhancing a game based on its source content. Nvidia also stressed that DLSS 5 gave developers controls that let them decide how changes from DLSS 5 appeared in their games.
But accompanying examples shared by Nvidia were widely criticized and meme’d on for significantly changing how characters looked, such as the “yassification” of Resident Evil Requiem protagonist Grace Ashcroft. With the official launch, Requiem still doesn’t support DLSS 5, and neither do other games shown in the March reveal, including EA Sports FC, Starfield, and Hogwarts Legacy, so we don’t know how the final version of the tech might now appear in those titles.