NVIDIA DLSS 5 Paints Game Graphics With AI-Infused Photorealistic Details

During NVIDIA's GTC 2026 keynote, CEO Jensen Huang gave attendees a sneak-peek at DLSS 5 leveraging neural rendering technology, with an array of brief clips of Resident Evil Requiem, Hogwarts Legacy, Starfield and EA Sports' FC '26. The newest game in that group is Resident Evil Requiem, and its already leading-edge, path-traced graphics were even further enhanced by DLSS 5's neural rendering.

With DLSS 5, games with or without path tracing or ray tracing will reportedly see substantial improvements to visual fidelity. DLSS 5 factors in visual techniques like global illumination, subsurface scattering, and more, over and above just ray tracing. As such, there may be some unintended changes to the original artwork introduced by DLSS 5's neural rendering techniques, but keep in mind DLSS 5 is also a work in progress. In fact, DLSS 5 is not due to arrive until the fall, and the demos ...