Summary

  • DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution is now live in the Nvidia app.
  • 2nd-gen transformer boosts image quality but uses 5x power — RTX 30/20 series GPUs may drop up to 20% FPS.
  • The new version of Super Resolution offers subtle visual gains, including better lighting, and less shimmer/trails.

Following its announcement at CES 2026, Nvidia's DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution is now available to Nvidia app users. The update first released in beta last week.

"Today, Nvidia are rolling out DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution to all Nvidia app users. Announced at CES last week, DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution introduces a 2nd generation transformer model for DLSS Super Resolution, delivering state-of-the-art image quality for all GeForce RTX GPUs in over 400 games and apps," said Nvidia in a recent statement.

Nvidia says that its second-generation Super Resolution is more advanced than its predecessor and that it requires 5x the power compared to the previous generation model. While this increase won't affect RTX 50 series graphics cards significantly, RTX 30 and RTX 20 series GPUs are reportedly experiencing a performance loss of up to 20% compared to DLSS 4. It's unclear if Nvidia plans to improve DLSS 4.5's efficiency with older GPUs.

If you have an eye for graphics, you'll notice the visual upgrades

6x DLSS Multi-Frame Generation isn't available yet

But what does DLSS 4.5 actually offer? The visual upgrades are pretty subtle, but lighting is improved alongside a reduction in the shimmer, flickering, and the image trails DLSS AI upscaling is known for. While I haven't tried DLSS 4.5 with my RTX 5090 yet, I watched a brief demo of it in action at CES, and was impressed by the improvements. In fact, I could barely see a difference between Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA) and DLSS 4.5 set to Quality Mode in Arc Raiders. The visual upgrades are the sort of thing you might not notice initially, but once they've been pointed out to you, they're difficult to ignore, particularly with regard to ghosting.

Alongside DLSS 4.5, Nvidia also revealed that DLSS 4 Multi-Frame Generation is now available in 240 games and apps. 6x DLSS Multi-Frame Generation, which was also revealed at CES, doesn't seem to be ready yet and isn't included in this update.

To download the DLSS 4.5 update, open the Nvidia app and click update (I also needed to update my Nvidia app).

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