DLSS 5 Takes a Fixed Slice of Every Frame No Setting Can Shrink

Independent on-versus-off testing puts a number on DLSS 5 Neural Rendering, NVIDIA commits to Ada support later, and AMD and Intel both ship game-support drivers.

Independent on-versus-off testing puts a number on DLSS 5 Neural Rendering, NVIDIA commits to Ada support later, and AMD and Intel both ship game-support drivers.

NVIDIA's first DLSS 5 charts show output frame rates, and the render rates behind them are a lot lower. The Game Ready driver it needs also has a flicker bug in testing.

Eight of the 28 US GPU price lanes with a seven-day figure moved exactly nothing this week, after a month that ran as high as 39 percent. Europe's medians eased, the CPU discount narrowed, and $60 now separates a 64GB DDR5 kit from an RTX 5070 Ti.

This week's Market Watch read: GPU prices sitting almost exactly where they sat last week, three Ryzen desktop chips priced lower and still under MSRP, and a RAM kit that took five passes to finally get its first price.

This week's Market Watch read: the first DE/FR/NL/UK numbers alongside US pricing, and a batch of same-day 7-day trend figures worth reading with real skepticism.