Nvidia is officially planning to bring DLSS 5 to older GeForce RTX 40-series GPUs after it finishes tuning the feature on RTX 50 cards. The confirmation comes from Nvidia spokesperson Rajal Maharaj in a September 4, 2026 report by Sean Hollister at The Verge. DLSS 5 still launches first on RTX 50 hardware. This is a policy expansion vs earlier coverage that framed DLSS 5 as an RTX 50-first launch with NBA 2K27 as the first shipping title.
In Nvidia’s statement quoted by The Verge, the company said its current focus is optimizing performance for the GeForce RTX 50 Series, with model updates expected later this fall. “Once RTX 50 Series performance is more fully tuned, we plan to work on expanding official support to the GeForce RTX 40 Series,” the statement reads. Maharaj also told The Verge that the near-term focus remains the 50-series, and that Nvidia will look at the 40-series once the 50-series is in a good place. The company did not greenlight official DLSS 5 support for RTX 30 or RTX 20 cards in that exchange.
On player controls, Nvidia drew a hard line. “For gamers, DLSS 5 is a simple on-or-off toggle,” the company confirmed to The Verge. Granular artistic controls — model selection, Structure Intensity, Tone Intensity, automatic masking, and custom per-pixel masking — stay with developers. Nvidia said developers could still expose some controls in their own settings menus, the way other graphics features have evolved from simple toggles to quality presets.
Asked whether Nvidia could reconfirm DLSS 5 for previously named titles including Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Hogwarts Legacy, Starfield, Resident Evil Requiem, and the rest of the original announce list, Nvidia would only say more games are on the way and that many developers are actively integrating the tech. Treat that as a non-confirmation of the earlier title list, not as a cancellation notice.
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What this story is not claiming: DLSS 5 is already live on RTX 40 today; RTX 30/20 are officially supported; gamers get mod-style sliders in every title; or that Nvidia formally canceled Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Hogwarts Legacy, Starfield, or Resident Evil Requiem support.
