# DLSS 5 Patched to Work on RTX 4000 "Ada Lovelace" GPUs Despite No Official Support

> Source: <https://www.techpowerup.com/352086/dlss-5-patched-to-work-on-rtx-4000-ada-lovelace-gpus-despite-no-official-support>
> Published: 2026-08-28 17:22:12+00:00

The [modding community has been hard at work](https://www.techpowerup.com/352076/dlss-5-gets-modded-into-skyrim-with-dramatic-changes-to-lighting-and-character-faces) ever since the untimely release of DLSS-NR, a precursor to DLSS 5. Now, modders have gotten NVIDIA's leaked DLSS 5 tool working on RTX 4000 series cards, even though the tool was only built for RTX 5000 Blackwell hardware. The [DLL leaked earlier this week via an early-access build of NBA 2K27](https://www.techpowerup.com/352026/nvidia-dlss-5-neural-rendering-dll-leak-hints-at-nearby-launch), and people on the RenoDX Discord quickly got it running in other games using ReShade and RenoDX.

As we noted in our [DLSS-NR breakdown](https://www.techpowerup.com/352033/nvidia-dlss-5-dll-leaked-by-nba-2k27-early-access-build-heres-our-analysis), the AI model runs on FP8, which Ada Lovelace GPUs support just fine, but the compiled binaries inside the file only targeted Blackwell's sm_120 architecture, with nothing built for Ampere or Ada. A modder going by "Uncle Burrito" has apparently fixed that by hunting down the incompatible binaries and swapping in ones built for Ada. [Tom's Hardware confirmed](https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/exclusive-dlss-5-has-already-been-ported-to-work-on-rtx-4000-series-graphics-cards-incompatible-cuda-instructions-get-patched-to-work-on-previous-gen-hardware) the patch works on an RTX 4080, and said other developers in the same Discord are working on their own versions of the fix.
