We tested DLSS 5 in NBA 2K27 with every RTX 50-series GPU — first official release comes with a big performance hit, but almost every Blackwell card can run it at 1080p
- ID
- 21746
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 05 Sep 2026, 7:00 PM
- Fetched
- 05 Sep 2026, 7:01 PM
- Provider
- Tom's Hardware
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/we-tested-dlss-5-in-nba-2k27-with-every-rtx-50-series-gpu-first-official-release-comes-with-a-big-performance-hit-but-almost-every-blackwell-card-can-run-it-at-1080p
- Source URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/feeds/all
Summary
- Score
- 2.0
- Created
- 05 Sep 2026, 7:02 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developers
What happened
Tom's Hardware benchmarked DLSS 5's first official release in NBA 2K27 across every RTX 50-series (Blackwell) GPU, finding a significant performance hit compared to not using it, though nearly all Blackwell cards can still run the game at 1080p with DLSS 5 enabled.
Why it matters
For builders, this is primarily a gaming benchmark, not an ML workload. Unless you are evaluating Blackwell GPU performance for inference or training and want early signals on the architecture's overhead characteristics, there is no actionable takeaway here. The performance hit data is game-specific and not transferable to AI/ML pipelines.
Discussion angle
Brief mention only: whether early Blackwell consumer GPU benchmarks hint at anything useful for local ML practitioners considering RTX 50-series cards for inference workloads — likely not, given DLSS is gaming-specific.