I Built a DLSS 5 GPU Compatibility Checker with Next.js 14 (and what I learned about AI rendering)

NVIDIA announced DLSS 5 at GTC on March 16, 2026 — and the internet immediately exploded with questions: "Does my GPU support it? Is my RTX 4090 going to be left out?" I couldn't find a clean, reliable answer anywhere. So I built one. 👉 dlss5.net — a free GPU compatibility checker for DLSS 5 ## What is DLSS 5, actually? This tripped me up while building the site. A lot of sources were confusing DLSS 5 with Multi Frame Generation (MFG) — but they're completely different things: | Version | Key Feature | Focus | |---------|-------------|-------| | DLSS 3 | Frame Generation (1 AI frame) | Performance | | DLSS 4 | Multi Frame Generation 4X | Performance | | DLSS 4.5 | Dynamic MFG 6X | Performance | | DLSS 5 | Neural Rendering | Visual Fidelity | DLSS 5's core feature is Real-time Neural Rendering — AI analyzes scene semantics (hair, skin, fabric, lighting) and generates photoreal material responses in real time. Jensen Huang called it "the GPT moment for graphics." It runs on top of DLSS