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DLSS 5 Officially Goes Live September 3 With NBA 2K27, Exclusive to RTX 50-series "Blackwell" GPUs

TechPowerUp·2026/9/1 16:32:33🔗 原文

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NVIDIA has confirmed that DLSS 5 will officially launch on September 3 alongside NBA 2K27, and it will remain exclusive to GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs. When asked directly at a Gamescom technical brief

⚡ 关键要点

  • NVIDIA has confirmed that DLSS 5 will officially launch on S
  • According to NVIDIA, DLSS 5 is its largest and most complex
NVIDIA has confirmed that DLSS 5 will officially launch on September 3 alongside NBA 2K27, and it will remain exclusive to GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs. When asked directly at a Gamescom technical briefing whether older cards would ever receive support, NVIDIA gave a flat answer: "It's RTX 50-series only." The model runs on Blackwell's fifth-generation Tensor cores, and there's no fallback path for RTX 40-series or anything older. That confirmation lines up with what modders had already found by digging through the leaked DLSS 5 DLL that surfaced through an early NBA 2K27 build last week, which contained executable code gated specifically to Blackwell hardware.

According to NVIDIA, DLSS 5 is its largest and most complex model to date, and the priority has been optimizing it specifically for RTX 50 hardware rather than stretching it across older Tensor core generations. However, that didn't stop modders from finding workarounds for RTX 40-series, 30-series, and even 20-series GPUs. After the DLSS 5 DLL leaked through an early NBA 2K27 build, a modder patched around the CUDA binaries and got Neural Rendering running on an RTX 4090, with performance dropping by roughly 36 to 39 percent in Control. That's still a significant hit, but nowhere near the collapse seen on RTX 30-series cards, which lack native FP8 support and saw frame rates fall off a cliff in the same tests. Given that the RTX 40-series already has native FP8 acceleration built in, official support for it seems like it could've been on the table, even as a lower-tier experience