NVIDIA's continuous optimization of its software and technology stack has delivered another major improvement. The latest DLSS 5 update, scheduled for October 16, will deliver another 2x performance boost, meaning previously DLSS 5-optimized workloads will literally run twice as fast.
Alongside this uplift, NVIDIA promises that in 4K gameplay with DLSS 5 enabled, the neural rendering technology will use 20% less VRAM, leaving more room for game textures to load without DLSS 5 interfering with capacity or hogging resources. NVIDIA updates DLSS by running a continuous loop on top of an internal supercomputer that constantly optimizes the technology for performance, efficiency, and visual fidelity. For this week's update, the company combined systematic pipeline optimizations with neural model refinements to achieve the 2x boost.
In late August, TechPowerUp saw that the leaked DLSS 5 file was roughly a 148 million parameter model. According to NVIDIA, the October update shrinks the model's footprint by another 24% to roughly 118 million parameters, confirming that original estimate. Because the smaller model scales memory usage almost linearly, it cuts VRAM usage by about 20%.
Compared to the initial launch in mid-March, when DLSS 5 was showcased on two GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs, NVIDIA has scaled performance by 10x in just a couple of months.
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