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A claim going round says NVIDIA's 6x frame generation now works on RTX 20, 30 and 40 cards. It does not. Here is what is actually true, where the story came from, and the part that genuinely matters if you game on a handheld.

DLSS 5 is officially out. It needs an RTX 50 card, it costs 50 to 60 percent of your frame rate, and the supported game list is still tiny. Here is what it requires, what runs it, and what it means for handhelds.

No handheld you can buy today has an NVIDIA GPU. But from 3 September a Steam Deck can put DLSS 5 on its screen, because the rendering happens on an RTX 5080 in a data centre.

The DLSS 5 mod started as RTX 50 only. It now runs on RTX 20, 30 and 40 cards too. Check your GPU against the current requirements, see the real frame rate cost, and get the honest answer for handhelds.

Your Android handheld can play modern AAA games today, by streaming them. Game Pass, GeForce Now, and Moonlight on retro handhelds, and when streaming beats emulating.