A modder has ported DLSS 5 Neural Rendering onto an AMD GPU for the first time, less than a week after the tech started spreading to older NVIDIA cards. Developer danielblnc released a tool called DLSS-NR for AMD, which allows AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs to run NVIDIA's neural rendering model in supported games. The setup works by dropping a small installer and NVIDIA's own nvngx_dlssnr.dll file into a game's bin folder, then toggling neural rendering through an FSR 3 or FSR 4 profile.

It has been tested on Cyberpunk 2077 and GTA V: Enhanced so far, with older AMD GPUs reportedly not supported. Anti-cheat games will block the DLL entirely, so this is single-player territory only for now. According to tests by YouTuber Ancient Gameplays, performance is still the bottleneck. Early builds tanked Cyberpunk 2077 from over 80 FPS down to around 11-12 FPS at 1080p on the Radeon RX 9070 XT.

The modder's latest Alpha v0.2.7 update has clawed back roughly 12%, pushing it to about 30 FPS, still a steep cost for a card that handles native rendering well. The reason this works at all is quite straightforward. DLSS 5 runs on FP8 math, and AMD's RDNA 4 architecture, which powers the RX 9000 series, has native FP8 support, just like NVIDIA's RTX 50-series and 40-series cards.

As noted in our DLSS 5 preview, NVIDIA has been firm that the feature is Blackwell-only for now, even as modders got it running on RTX 40-series and 30-series cards within days of the leak. NVIDIA has since confirmed that support for the RTX 40-series is in the works. The AMD support is early and unofficial, so don't expect this to be a practical way to play anytime soon. However, it's another sign that NVIDIA's neural rendering tech is spreading faster and wider than the company planned for.