"The lighting and shading improvements are bonkers." ...
Plenty of unknowns circle around Nvidia's upcoming DLSS 5, just announced and demoed at GTC 2026. But it looks to offer the biggest leap in graphics we've seen in a long while.
Nvidia promised its new technology is a “dramatic leap in visual realism,” though gamers voiced fears it will diminish the artistic appearance of video games.
Nvidia has touted DLSS 5 as being as big of a leap forward as the programmable shader, which changed video game rendering in 2001.
Nvidia dropped DLSS 5 at GTC 2026 this week, and the internet already has opinions.