Good News, Everyone: DLSS 5 Only Needs One GPU Now. Bad News: That GPU Costs What a Laptop Used To.

Back in March, I wrote about Jensen Huang wanting $1 trillion while demoing features you'll need $10,000 to run. The short version: Nvidia unveiled DLSS 5 at GTC, running on a rig with two RTX 5090s, showed off a Resident Evil Requiem demo that immediately got dragged for "yassifying" Grace Ashcroft, and told everyone who was skeptical that they were "completely wrong." Nvidia's promise at the time was that DLSS 5 would be optimized down to a single GPU by the time it actually launched in the fall. Well, it's fall. DLSS 5 officially launches September 3rd alongside NBA 2K27, and I have to hand it to Nvidia: they actually hit that mark. According to their own post, since the initial announcement in March, they've gone from requiring dual RTX 5090s to running on a single GPU, with a claimed 5x performance improvement in six months. That's not nothing, and it's a real engineering accomplishment. Good news, everyone: it only needs one GPU now. Bad news, everyone: that GPU costs $800–1,200…