{"id":1680489,"date":"2026-09-01T13:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UNKHZ4jimuQUfSHpb7PPrY"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:45:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:45:55","slug":"dlss-5-comes-with-a-massive-50-60-performance-hit-so-i-hope-you-like-lower-frame-rates-with-your-dose-of-ai-image-enhancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/dlss-5-comes-with-a-massive-50-60-performance-hit-so-i-hope-you-like-lower-frame-rates-with-your-dose-of-ai-image-enhancement\/","title":{"rendered":"DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>I walked into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/bad-ending-now-every-game-is-slop-game-developers-share-mixed-reactions-to-dlss-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia&#8217;s DLSS 5 demo<\/a> last week with some preconceptions, I&#8217;ll be honest. I hadn&#8217;t enjoyed the images it had produced to date, and I was sceptical about the benefits it could bring to our beloved games. Not to mention the troubling notion of AI-generated (or at least, altered) images entering into our hobby, even if you can turn them off with a simple checkbox.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is, DLSS 5 is capable of looking pretty good once the settings have been tweaked by actual game developers. The very bad news is, Nvidia says turning DLSS 5 on will currently reduce performance by 50-60%. And that&#8217;s across the board\u2014no matter the game.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia was keen to point out that, just six months ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/i-really-thought-nvidias-dlss-5-was-going-to-be-smarter-than-this\/\" target=\"_blank\">DLSS 5 required two RTX 5090s to run<\/a>. So, a 5x improvement since then is something to hold within our collective hats. But tanking frame rates is very unlikely to improve DLSS 5&#8217;s perception within the PC gaming community, that&#8217;s for certain. <\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height: 250px;\">\n<div class=\"kwizly-quiz kwizly-Oo2MqW\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script src=\"https:\/\/kwizly.com\/embed\/Oo2MqW.js\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Looking at the basic performance charts Nvidia has provided us so far, the ultra-high frame rate figures are based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/hands-on-with-nvidias-new-dynamic-multi-frame-generation-5x-and-6x-modes-push-frame-rates-even-higher-than-before-though-you-can-have-too-much-of-a-good-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\">6x Multi Frame Generation<\/a>. So, while the little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/live\/news\/nvidia-rtx-5060-review-doing-it-live\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTX 5060<\/a> can churn out a 258 fps result in NBA 2K27 at 1080p Ultra settings with ray tracing and DLSS 5 enabled, the game underneath will actually be running at around 43 fps. <\/p>\n<p>At 4K, the same game settings result in a 370 fps average on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-fe-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTX 5090<\/a>, or a 233 fps average on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/nvidia-rtx-5080-founders-edition-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTX 5080<\/a>. That&#8217;s with Performance-level upscaling, though, and with 6x MFG doing some seriously heavy lifting once more. <\/p>\n<figure role=\"gallery\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dlss-5-comes-with-a-massive-50-60-performance-hit-so-i-hope-you-like-lower-frame-rates-with-your-dose-of-ai-image-enhancement.jpg\" alt=\"Performance comparisons from Nvidia showing DLSS 5 frame rates\" \/><figcaption><small role=\"credit\">Nvidia<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dlss-5-comes-with-a-massive-50-60-performance-hit-so-i-hope-you-like-lower-frame-rates-with-your-dose-of-ai-image-enhancement-1.jpg\" alt=\"Performance comparisons from Nvidia showing DLSS 5 frame rates\" \/><figcaption><small role=\"credit\">Nvidia<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dlss-5-comes-with-a-massive-50-60-performance-hit-so-i-hope-you-like-lower-frame-rates-with-your-dose-of-ai-image-enhancement-2.jpg\" alt=\"Performance comparisons from Nvidia showing DLSS 5 frame rates\" \/><figcaption><small role=\"credit\">Nvidia<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve spent thousands of bucks on a high-end graphics card, I&#8217;d imagine that running games with the upscaling and frame generation settings near their limits to achieve high frame rates is probably not what you had in mind.<\/p>\n<p>All of which makes me wonder if the AI-ification of DLSS 5 is really the biggest barrier to its acceptance. I have my own deep, dark concerns about DLSS 5, AI in general, and its pervasive hooks making their way into our hobby. But if the tech is capable of slicing the frame rate in half, all of this might be a moot point.<\/p>\n<p>The Nvidia folk I spoke to were keen to point out that performance improvements are already on the way. But given that so many gamers are stuck with older graphics cards, thanks to the ongoing pricing crisis that seems <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/theres-a-looming-gpu-supply-crisis-which-means-prices-are-likely-to-get-a-whole-lot-worse-and-its-not-just-because-of-memory\/\" target=\"_blank\">destined to become much worse<\/a> before it gets better, I do wonder who the tech is currently for.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"9S6BpKr58LQKwRkCLLy977\" name=\"DLSS5gains\" alt=\"A chart showing DLSS 5 performance gains made by Nvidia over the past six months\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dlss-5-comes-with-a-massive-50-60-performance-hit-so-i-hope-you-like-lower-frame-rates-with-your-dose-of-ai-image-enhancement-3.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dlss-5-comes-with-a-massive-50-60-performance-hit-so-i-hope-you-like-lower-frame-rates-with-your-dose-of-ai-image-enhancement-3.jpg' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Nvidia)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/21-games-will-support-nvidias-real-time-ray-tracing-here-are-demos-of-tomb-raider-and-control\/\" target=\"_blank\">ray tracing first arrived on the scene<\/a>, its performance-tanking qualities were at least (partially) offset by the introduction of upscaling. But all these years later, I still debate for myself whether it&#8217;s worth turning on when I play games on my own, relatively high-end gaming PC. Our rigs might be better equipped on average, but ray tracing is still a performance hog in 2026\u2014and many gamers I speak to still turn it off for smoother frames.<\/p>\n<p>And while DLSS 5 is certainly more&#8230; <em>transformative <\/em>than ray tracing in terms of the images it creates, it&#8217;s also far more controversial. Even if you&#8217;re prepared to make the jump into AI-enhanced games (and it&#8217;s quite the leap, let&#8217;s be honest), putting those concerns in tandem with massively compromised frame rates is a seriously big ask for even the most curious of gamers.<\/p>\n<p>I expected to be writing about the controversy surrounding Nvidia&#8217;s new tech in terms of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/nvidia-dlss-5-reveal-pc-gamer-reacts-not-wholly-positively\/\" target=\"_blank\">the wider atmosphere of AI discontent<\/a>. But here I am getting down to brass tacks. In its current form, DLSS 5 seems to hit your graphics card like a freight train\u2014and whatever your opinion on AI in gaming, nobody wants that.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/dlss-5-comes-with-a-massive-50-60-percent-performance-hit-so-i-hope-you-like-lower-frame-rates-with-your-dose-of-ai-image-enhancement\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked into Nvidia&#8217;s DLSS 5 demo last week with some preconceptions, I&#8217;ll be honest. I hadn&#8217;t enjoyed the images it had produced to date, and I was sceptical about the benefits it could bring to our beloved games. Not to mention the troubling notion of AI-generated (or at least, altered) images entering into our hobby, even if you can turn them off with a simple checkbox. The good news is, DLSS 5 is capable of looking pretty good once the settings have been tweaked by actual game developers. The very bad news is, Nvidia says turning DLSS 5 on will currently reduce performance by 50-60%. And that&#8217;s across the board\u2014no matter the game. Nvidia was keen to point out that, just six months ago,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/dlss-5-comes-with-a-massive-50-60-performance-hit-so-i-hope-you-like-lower-frame-rates-with-your-dose-of-ai-image-enhancement\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1680490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[791,66],"class_list":["post-1680489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-graphics-cards","tag-hardware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I walked into Nvidia&#039;s DLSS 5 demo last week with some preconceptions, I&#039;ll be honest. 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