AMD cards just stole NVIDIA's best trick — and it took the modding community exactly one day. DLSS 5 shipped as an RTX-only party. Then someone fed its files straight onto a Radeon RX 9000 card, and the benchmarks didn't just work — they jumped up to 74 percent.
Cyberpunk 2077 running the mod — overlay on, frame rate climbing, an AMD card doing things it had no business doing this week. (Image source: TechPowerUp)
How? The mod hands NVIDIA's own DLSS 5 DLL the keys to Radeon hardware, intercepting the calls it makes and rerouting them to RX 9000 cards — with reports the trick reaches RX 7000 cards too. Free neural rendering, no new GPU required. Yes, it costs more than your rent's worth of goodwill toward corporate walled gardens, and it's still somehow the best value in gaming.
The community didn't stop at the hack — a whole launcher now handles the install. Point it at your games, click once. (Image source: VideoCardz)
Players are already reporting around a hundred FPS in brand-new releases. Meanwhile AMD's own FSR sits there like a consolation prize at someone else's raffle. The community just unified the GPU war by itself — honestly, faster than either company has managed in years.
A new release benchmark on Radeon with DLSS 5 in the mix — frame counters that used to require an RTX badge. (Image source: GameGPU)
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Source: TechPowerUp
