"The lighting and shading improvements are bonkers." ...

Nvidia has touted DLSS 5 as being as big of a leap forward as the programmable shader, which changed video game rendering in 2001.

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.

This has been one of the most controversial reveals of an Nvidia technology I can remember, and people have a lot of thoughts.