At Gamescom 2026, NVIDIA confirmed that its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service will get a DLSS 4.5 upgrade next month. For subscribers on the Ultimate Tier, which offers GeForce RTX 5080-class performance and up to 5K streaming, they'll get access to the full DLSS 4.5 suite of technologies in over 100 games.
This includes DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution, Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, and the brand-new DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction. DLSS 4.5 is a game-changer because it uses a powerful second-generation Transformer model that delivers up to 5X the compute power of the original DLSS 4 Transformer model and was trained on a significantly expanded dataset.
The result is more detail, improved image fidelity, fewer artifacts, and more. As we found in our own testing, the updated DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution's 'Performance' preset offers native-like fidelity that's noticeably better than even DLSS 4's 'Quality' preset in certain titles. What does this mean for GeForce NOW? Well, the same as running DLSS 4.5 locally - improved image quality and better performance.
With the growing cost of discrete GPUs thanks to the memory crisis, services like GeForce NOW are looking far more attractive. As long as you're in a location with a fast connection to a GeForce NOW server, having support for tech like DLSS 4.5 and NVIDIA G-SYNC can offer an experience comparable to playing on a desktop PC with a dedicated GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU.
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And because GeForce NOW is built around access to games you already own on storefronts like Steam, Xbox, and GOG, it effectively acts as a virtual machine you log into via an intuitive interface. And with that, NVIDIA has also confirmed that some of the biggest upcoming PC games will be fully supported on GeForce NOW, including: Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, Gears of War: E-Day, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Control Resonant, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and Metro 2039.
