Modders build a direct pipeline, letting NVIDIA's DLSS 5 run on AMD's latest Radeon GPUs

A developer's project called AMDLSS5 has reached version 2.0, successfully running NVIDIA's neural rendering technology, DLSS 5, on AMD's latest Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards. The new version is a standalone engine that no longer relies on files from other community mods, which initially bridged the gap between the competing hardware architectures.

The mod shows promising performance gains in early testing, with a reported 11-19% improvement over the previous version in one specific game benchmark. While the developer claims much larger gains over unnamed "other mods," the current support is limited to a few specific games and requires disabling anti-cheat systems. For engineers and enthusiasts, this represents a significant reverse-engineering achievement, demonstrating the community's ability to bypass proprietary vendor lock-in, though it comes with practical limitations and no official support.