Nvidia’s DLSS 5 Launch Sparks Meme Frenzy as Gamers Balk at AI ‘Neural Rendering’

Jensen Huang called it the “GPT moment for graphics.” The internet called it a "yassification filter" with a $1,500 GPU requirement. At GTC 2026 this week, NVIDIA unveiled DLSS 5—its most technically ambitious graphics feature to date, and almost certainly its most memed. Unlike previous DLSS versions, which focused on upscaling or frame generation, DLSS 5 goes full neural rendering. It takes a game’s color buffer and motion vectors and then reinterprets them.   Skin gets subsurface scattering...