NVIDIA Announces DLSS 5 with Photorealistic Lighting to Change the Future of Gaming
Nvidia's DLSS 5 uses AI to add photorealistic lighting and detail in real time up to 4K, supported by major game developers for release this fall.
- On Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang introduced DLSS 5 at the company's GTC keynote as a new AI system that enhances game realism while reducing compute power.
- The system builds on prior previews such as DLSS 4.5 shown at CES, with Jensen Huang saying fusing structured data and generative AI lets developers create 'beautiful, amazing, as well as controllable' content.
- DLSS 5 ingests per-frame color and motion vectors and uses an end-to-end trained AI model to infuse photoreal lighting and materials anchored to source 3D content.
- Nvidia showed DLSS 5 running in video demos on Starfield, Resident Evil Requiem, and Hogwarts Legacy, with top studios planning support; the system runs in real time at up to 4K and launches this fall.
- Huang suggested the technique could extend beyond gaming to enterprise computing, highlighting platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery and emphasizing structured data as AI's foundation.
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NVIDIA has unveiled DLSS 5 at GTC. The new version is slated for release this fall (followed by version 4.5) and, according to the manufacturer, represents the biggest leap in computer graphics since the advent of real-time ray tracing... Read the full article: NVIDIA announces DLSS 5 with new AI rendering
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