Got a good GPU? Treat yourself to ray tracing, DLSS, or both
Typical. I look away for five minutes, or two and a half months, and there are literally dozens of new games to add to the ray tracing and/or DLSS games list. Quite a mix, too: there’s monkeying megahitBlack Myth: Wukong, my current favourite indie shooterEcho Point Nova, the very imminent RPGDragon Age: The Veilguard, andConco- oh, wait, no.That’s gone.
There are now over 600 games and apps that can deploy the easy performance-boosting of DLSS upscaling, the lighting effect prettification of ray tracing, or both. Ideally both, really. Ray tracing can make your games look better, but is a serious performance hog even on the mightiestgraphics cards, so DLSS is perfect for clawing back those lost frames.AMD’s FSRtech performs the same role, but just isn’t as sharp and crisp as DLSS, so the latter is a major perk to the GeForce RTX GPUs that can support it. Which is to say, all of them.
Those with one of the very latest RTX 40 series cards can also call uponDLSS 3. Which, in an increasingly rare non-evil application of AI, generates new frames to slip in between the ordinary rendered ones, producing even more smoothness. That’s provided the game supports it, anyway, though the number of those that do has been ticking up rapidly as well. I’ll keep track of all the DLSS 3 games we know of at the bottom of this list, alongside all the current and upcoming ray tracing and DLSS-compatible ones.
Ray tracing games you can play right now:
More ray tracing games are always on the way, so below you’ll find all the other upcoming ray tracing games we currently know about. Some are old games getting new ray tracing updates, others are upcoming titles that haven’t been released yet.
Unlike ray tracing, which works on a lot of different AMD, Nvidia, and Intel GPUs, DLSS require the use of an Nvidia RTX card specifically. It’s an AI-powered upscaling technology that helps to boost performance at higher resolutions (particularly when you’ve got ray tracing enabled), and many of today’s big ray tracing games such asWatch Dogs Legion simply aren’t playable without it. Without further ado, then, here are all the Nvidia DLSS games you can play right now:
There are more DLSS games on the way, too. DLSS has now beenintegrated into both the Unreal EngineandUnitygame-making tools now, so it should be much easier for developers to start adding in support for it.
That said, several games Nvidia have announced over the past few years still haven’t received their intended DLSS support yet, and consequently I’ve removed some of the titles that were previously included on this list, as even Nvidia seem to have forgotten about them in their most recent DLSS announcements. Instead, the games below are definitely confirmed to be getting DLSS support, based on the most recent information available to us.
DLSS 3 is a generational step up from previous versions. It still works by rendering frames at a lower resolution, then upscaling them, but DLSS 3 can also add brand new frames that Nvidia’s AI tech generates itself (using data from surrounding frames). These interpolated frames are snuck in-between the rendered frames, boosting overall FPS even more.
There are some downsides: this technique increases input latency, so might not be great for pacey competitive games, and it will only be available if you’re running an GeForce RTX 40 series GPU. Still, it works well from what I’ve played, with particularly impactful FPS boosts at 4K; the only time I’ve witnessed unacceptable quality drops from frame gen has been inImmortals of Aveum, which had a nasty ghosting effect at launch. Every other time, DLSS 3 has looked fine.
Some of these games may also get support forDLSS 3.5 and its Ray Reconstructionfeature, though unlike frame generation, this won’t specifically require an RTX 40 series GPU. In any case, here are the games that already have the original DLSS 3 up, running, and playable with frame generation:
Unreal Engines 4 and 5, Unity, and the Frostbite Engine are all DLSS 3 compatible, so you can expect this list to grow just as the ‘old’ DLSS lists above have done.
