DLSS 5's First Benchmark: NVIDIA's Neural Rendering Costs 37% of Your Frame Rate

NVIDIA's DLSS 5 "3D-Guided Neural Rendering" debuts in NBA 2K27. Engadget's RTX 5090 testing at 4K shows enabling it drops frames from 240 to 150 fps and raises power from ~400W to 525W, for "subtle" visual gains. Prior DLSS generations returned frames; DLSS 5's neural stage consumes them. Worth flagging: the value proposition is inverted until models optimize.