{"id":1720611,"date":"2026-10-15T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Mo2nzfQdAHCEKaB5LLa7BL"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:26:59","slug":"i-jammed-nvidias-new-dlss-5-october-update-model-into-the-rtx-spark-and-its-25-faster-at-1440p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-jammed-nvidias-new-dlss-5-october-update-model-into-the-rtx-spark-and-its-25-faster-at-1440p\/","title":{"rendered":"I jammed Nvidia’s new DLSS 5 October update model into the RTX Spark and it’s 25% faster at 1440p"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pumpkin month is here and it has brought us bountiful PC tech, too. Along with the launch of the new Nvidia RTX Spark<\/a> platform\u2014bringing us all-Nvidia powered laptops and mini PCs for a pretty penny\u2014we’ve also now got the latest update to DLSS 5, or DLSS Neural Rendering, or DLSS NR. I’m still not 100% sure how we should be referring to this, but I’m certainly not convinced by the whole ‘3D-guided Neural Rendering’ moniker. <\/p>\n

Whatever, we’ve got a new model to play with<\/a> in the one game that has been officially released with the tech inside it: NBA 2K27. And, almost definitely from now on in any of the myriad modding platforms<\/a> that have baked DLSS 5 into any game you could imagine, on any GPU architecture.<\/p>\n

The new model is promising to be half as demanding of your hardware than the previous model\u2014so a nominal 30% hit rather than 60%\u2014and Nvidia says it has done this by refining the training data and reducing the model size itself down to around 118 million parameters, which makes it roughly 24% smaller. In terms of its impact on your GPU’s VRAM, Nvidia gives the example of a reduction in VRAM usage at 4K of 20%.<\/p>\n

NBA 2K27 running on the Nvidia RTX Spark with the DLSS 5 Oct update<\/h4>\n