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Dave James

71% of you say you could never be convinced to turn on DLSS 5, with 37% saying it wouldn't matter how good it looked

Jen-Hsun Huang introducing DLSS 5 at GTC 2026.

The reveal of DLSS 5 was pretty much the biggest thing to happen in PC gaming last month, and also one of the most contentious. Indeed, our own team reacted with a whole heap of different emotions, from general antipathy to vitriolic ranting. In fact only a few of us were in any way measured in our response.

So we thought we'd leave things to calm down a touch, assess what DLSS 5 might actually be doing behind the scenes—turns out it might not be as smart as we might have hoped—and let the dust settle before taking the temperature of PC Gamer readers.

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