GoKawiilDLSS 5 has apparently leaked, originating from inside a new game. This week, Renan Maniero discovered that NBA 2K27, which has entered early access, contains a new Nvidia library called nvngx_dlssnr.dll. The file, named Nvidia DLSSNR, appears to be associated with Nvidia’s DLSS 5 neural rendering technology, suggesting that NBA 2K27 will be among the first games to support it. Developers were quickly able to get DLSS 5 running in Control.
DLSS 5 is Nvidia’s upcoming neural rendering technology, first introduced in March of this year, which received a mixed reception from the gaming community. Nvidia announced that the technology would launch this fall, meaning its release is now fast approaching.
Eita, o acesso antecipado do jogo NBA 2K27 veio com uma DLL nova do DLSS. DLSS-NR (Neural Rendering) 👀 pic.twitter.com/X15fYO92RUAugust 26, 2026
One of the developers behind RenoDX, a popular toolset for modding games, has been working to get DLSS 5 running in an actual game using the aforementioned DLSS 5 library. The developer successfully got the technology working in Control and applied it to the game's character models.
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🚨DLSS 5 Running On Control with renodxso one of the renodx guys has dlss 5 neural rendering (ai filter) running on control. This was using the dlss nr dll found in nba 2k27. They have it working on character models only so far. Theres 7 different styles, the video clip… pic.twitter.com/YlEFVCIPJCAugust 27, 2026
You can expand the tweet above to see DLSS 5 in action, with seven sliders controlling parameters such as style, intensity, tone, and structure strength.
According to the developer on the RenoDX Discord server, DLSS 5 currently runs only on Blackwell GPUs. On an RTX 5070 Ti at 4K, enabling the technology reportedly reduced performance from 71 FPS to 35 FPS. However, the developer did not specify the DLSS 5 settings or the internal rendering resolution used for the test, so it is not yet clear how representative this performance impact is.
It is important to remember that this is an early implementation of DLSS 5 injected into a game by modders. Therefore, it should not be taken as confirmation that Blackwell GPUs will be the only hardware supported at launch, nor should the performance shown here be considered representative of the final release.
That said, the performance impact is not entirely unexpected. When Nvidia first demonstrated DLSS 5 in March, the demo was running on two RTX 5090s. Since then, the model has been distilled into a smaller and more efficient version capable of running on a single GPU, according to Nvidia’s presentation at SIGGRAPH 2026. Nvidia may still have additional optimizations to implement ahead of the official launch, but we still expect DLSS 5 to be demanding to run in practice.
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