DLSS 5 is coming a lot sooner than you might think. You've probably seen the leaked DLLs and the various mods putting the technology into existing games, but DLSS 5 will officially arrive later this week, on September 3, launching in exactly one title: NBA 2K27.
That's right, the launch title for DLSS 5 is a basketball game.
We have some interesting information to share today, including Nvidia's first-party performance data for the official implementation of DLSS 5, although not quite as much as we would have liked. A proper hands-on analysis will have to wait until we can test it ourselves in NBA 2K27.
Let's get into the biggest question we had about DLSS 5: performance. Not the performance of the feature when modded into games using RenoDX or OptiScaler, but the actual performance of an official game implementation. Nvidia provided some rather... interesting performance charts showing exactly that.
At 4K, Nvidia is showing NBA 2K27 running with ray tracing enabled and the Ultra preset. It's a slightly strange chart because only two GPUs are included: the RTX 5080 and Nvidia's flagship RTX 5090. And boy, are those frame rates high.
