DLSS 5 on AMD, Intel or GTX: What You Can Use

Can I use DLSS 5 on an AMD, Intel or GTX card?

Not officially, and not with DLSS 5 Swapper. DLSS 5’s neural rendering model normally runs on NVIDIA’s tensor cores and is loaded through NVIDIA’s NGX runtime, which is part of the GeForce driver. AMD Radeon and Intel Arc drivers do not include it, and GeForce GTX cards have no tensor cores. On recent Radeon cards, the only way around this is an experimental community runtime, described below.

The community tools draw the same line:

NVIDIA itself officially supports DLSS 5 on RTX 50 GPUs only, with RTX 40 support announced but not dated. On RTX 20, 30 and 40 cards the mods use a community-modified runtime. See what DLSS 5 is for the official picture and DLSS 5 Swapper on an RTX 3060 for what older RTX cards can expect.

What about the “AMD DLSS 5” projects?

DLSS-NR on AMD is a community project that reimplements the neural rendering runtime for Radeon cards. According to its README and release notes:

• Cards: Radeon RX 9000 and RX 7000; RX 6000 since version 0.6.0 (October 3, 2026), which also needs AMD’s HIP 7.2 runtime. Older cards are not supported.
• Games: DirectX 12 games that use FSR, on Windows 11. Vulkan is planned. Its developer tested Cyberpunk 2077 and GTA V Enhanced.
• Files: it needs your own copy of NVIDIA’s nvngx_dlssnr.dll, version 310.8.0.0, taken from a game that ships DLSS 5. Never take it from a DLL site (why).
• Speed and quality: about 33 FPS at 1080p on an RX 9070 XT, by its developer’s own figure, and some effects may not work fully yet.
• Anti-cheat: games with anti-cheat block it.

DLSS 5 Manager has offered an optional AMD mode since version 1.1.7 (September 6), first for RX 9000 cards. Version 1.3.4 (September 28) updated its DLSS-NR on AMD files and added an AMD mode for its screen-space Live Flow, which its developer says he could not test on an AMD card; version 1.3.5 (October 3) added RX 6000. As of October 5, 2026 none of this has been verified by this site, and none of it is NVIDIA software.

Be especially careful with downloads promising “DLSS 5 for AMD”: this is a common lure for fake downloads. Our download verifier does not cover this project, so take it only from its own GitHub releases page.

What AMD, Intel and GTX owners can use instead

Apart from the experimental project above, none of these reproduces the DLSS 5 look — the relit, photoreal skin and materials — but they cover the other reasons people install it:

• Better frame rate: use the game’s own FSR or XeSS option, or AMD’s driver-level upscaling and frame generation where your card supports it.
• Better image: ReShade presets and RenoDX HDR mods change colour, contrast and HDR output without neural rendering.
• The DLSS 5 look itself: needs an RTX card, or the unverified community runtime on a recent Radeon card. RTX 20 and 30 cards are the least expensive documented way in, at a significant frame-rate cost.

If you are choosing a GPU for DLSS 5

• RTX 50: official support in DLSS 5 games, and the best performance with mods.
• RTX 40: mods work today; official support is announced without a date.
• RTX 20 / 30: mods work through the modified runtime; expect the largest FPS drop, and see how to get more FPS.
• Radeon: only through the experimental community runtime. Do not buy a card for it.

For online games, read the ban-risk guide before installing anything.