DLSS 4.5: What's New?

Announced at CES 2026, DLSS 4.5 brings a major refresh to the frame generation technology. NVIDIA DLSS 4 already provided a significant performance boost with minimal visual deterioration, especially for their current 50-Series cards. DLSS 4.5 further enhances said performance but brings a mixed offering to previous 40-Series, 30-Series, and 20-Series cards.

DLSS 4.5, or DLSS in general, should be a big deal for gamers. Why? Better performance with minimal deterioration to the game's graphics. DLSS 4.5 strengthens DLSS' benefits for gamers:

• Performance & Ultra Performance has dramatically improved its visuals, so you can worry less about either mode being a compromise and sacrificing high fidelity graphics for a boosted FPS count. This is especially useful to those gaming on a 4K resolution display.
• Improved lighting, especially notable for games with neon lighting, reflections, and high-contrast scenes.
• Dynamic Multi Frame Generation (MFG) for 50-Series cards can generate 5 additional frames for every rendered frame so you can utilize your monitor's refresh rate to its maximum capability.
• DLSS 4.5 features are backwards compatible, so users will be able to utilize DLSS 4.5's new benefits in any games that have existing DLSS integration & Super Resolution.

The biggest change that DLSS 4.5 brings is the the upgraded Super Resolution model - capable of 5x compute power, improved contextual awareness, and smarter pixel sampling. It's basically a smarter AI brain for reconstructing a higher-res image from fewer pixels. Fewer pixels = boosted FPS count, whilst the AI is able to still provide a high fidelity image so your visuals aren't heavily impacted.

That sums up to our games having better visuals while still - less ghosting, fewer jaggy edges, and more stable detail with swift motions (especially for fast-paced FPS games). A quick example in Black Myth: Wukong:

Pending for Spring 2026, DLSS 4.5 is bringing 6X Multi Frame Generation & Dynamic Multi Frame Generation (MFG) to RTX 50-Series cards. Whilst we do not have sufficient details, Dynamic MFG is described as being similar to an automatic transmission in cars - it will shift between multipliers on the fly during your gaming session. This would theoretically lead to a more consistent FPS rate even during more graphics intensive scenes (ex. explosions, magic effects) so you don't experience heavy FPS drops.

To upgrade to DLSS 4.5, we've authored the steps below. You can also see the full process with the video at the bottom.

1. Launch the NVIDIA app (or download and install if you haven't already)
2. Make sure your drivers are updated to the latest version available (you can update in the NVIDIA app)
3. Navigate to the "Graphics" tab on the left side
4. Click on the "Global" Settings tab towards the top
5. Click on the middle column ("Use 3D app setting") of the DLSS Override - Model Presets row (it was the fourth row for us)
6. Switch to "Recommended" and apply