Yet again, modders have figured out a way to make DLSS 5 work on unsupported hardware, with this latest example being the most extreme yet, featuring AMD hardware running DLSS 5. Reported by Ancient Gameplays on YouTube, a modder by the name of Daniel published a mod on GitHub called "DLSS-NR-on-AMD" that makes DLSS 5 work on RDNA 4 GPUs, including the RX 9070 XT.
The mod uses a custom executable, along with a specific build of NVIDIA's DLSS DLL to introduce RDNA 4 compatibility to DLSS 5 (and add DLSS 5 to games that don't support it). Currently, the mod has only been tested on RDNA 4 GPUs, but RDNA 3 support technically exists. The mod's creator welcomes people to try the mod on RDNA 3 and report their experience with it.
Footage of Cyberpunk 2077 from Ancient Gameplays shows DLSS 5 working as intended on the RX 9070 XT with shadows, and highlights looking more realistic than native rendering. But unsurprisingly, performance was far from perfect; Ancient Gameplays recorded frame rates well under 20 FPS, making the mod barely useful for anything beyond capturing screenshots, at least in Cyberpunk 2077. That said, the modder has since published a new update that reportedly achieves 30 FPS at 1080p with the RX 9070 XT in Cyberpunk 2077.
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The mod shows that NVIDIA's DLSS technology can be ported over to AMD GPUs, with any hardware incompatibilities being remedied by software. Whether or not performance can be improved to reach parity with Blackwell GPUs remains a mystery, but the modder claims that they have a set goal of getting DLSS 5 to run at performance parity with an RTX 5070 Ti on an RX 9070 XT. It is worth mentioning that this mod is not FSR masquerading as DLSS, as has been the case with some older DLSS mods, but this specific mod is reportedly the real DLSS 5 neural renderer ported to RDNA 4.
