Nvidia gives DLSS 5 a 2x speed boost with its October update
Nvidia has given its DLSS 5 tech a 2x speed boost
Nvidia’s DLSS 5 3D-Guided Neural Rendering tech is heavy. It required a lot of GPU horsepower at launch, and since then Nvidia has worked hard to accelerate its performance. Now, with Nvidia’s DLSS 5 Occtober update, gamers will get the speed boost they have been asking for.
Since launch, Nvidia has boosted DLSS 5’s Neural Rendering model performance by 2x, dramatically lowering its performance cost. Additionally, Nvidia has shrunk its VRAM footprint by 20%, freeing up VRAM for other tasks. This change gives DLSS 5 half the performance overhead of its September 2026 version, which has a dramatic impact on performance.
Note that a 2x boost in DLSS 5’s performance does not mean a 2x boost in gaming framerates. Nvidia has lowered the performance cost of DLSS 5, and DLSS 5 is only part of a game’s framerate budget. With DLSS 5’s new version, NBA 2K27 now runs 40% faster with DLSS 5 enabled. Nvidia’s new version of DLSS 5 will arrive in NBA 2K27’s October 16th update.
Nvidia’s new October 2026 version of DLSS 5 will be the default version for future DLSS 5-enabled PC games. Well, at least until Nvidia releases a newer version.
Through a combination of systematic pipeline optimizations and neural model refinements, the performance of DLSS 5’s 3D-Guided Neural Rendering model is improving by 2X this week, enabling even more gamers to enjoy DLSS 5’s transformative uplift in lighting and materials at higher frames rates and settings.
The DLSS 5 October update shrinks the footprint by 24% to roughly 118 million parameters while reducing 4K VRAM usage by 20%. The result is half the GPU overhead of the September version while maintaining comparable visual fidelity.
The new, more performant DLSS 5 model will debut in NBA 2K27 on October 16th on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, RTX Spark laptops, and GeForce NOW, boosting frame rates by up to 1.4X. And it will ship by default with future DLSS 5 games.
DLSS 5 is coming to Hogwarts Legacy on November 5th, supporting RTX Spark and RTX 50-powered PCs. DLSS 5 is also coming to Where the Winds Meet, an upcoming action-adventure RPG from Everstone Studio.
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