Overview
- Independent developers recreated DLSS 5’s neural rendering with custom HIP kernels so AMD Radeon GPUs can run NVIDIA’s DLSS‑NR code paths without official vendor support.
- Developers report large, rapid performance gains across successive alpha releases, citing aggregate improvements in the 46–89% range and examples such as an RX 9070 XT reaching about 75 fps at 1080p in Cyberpunk 2077 in Fast mode.
- A new AMDNR Launcher bundles the two main runtimes — a closed‑source DLSS‑NR‑on‑AMD build and Kien’s open‑source HIP runtime — to simplify installation and let users swap runtimes with one click.
- The builds remain unofficial and use DLL injection, which limits them to mostly single‑player games and can produce motion artifacts, remaining high neural compute cost, and variable compatibility across GPU models.
- The work demonstrates community ability to bridge feature gaps and may pressure vendors to respond, but it raises legal, anti‑cheat, and security questions and has not been endorsed or supported by AMD.