‘NBA 2K27’ With NVIDIA DLSS 5 Leads 26 New Games Coming to GeForce NOW

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NVIDIA is bringing DLSS 5 with 3D-Guided Neural Rendering to NBA 2K27 at launch on GeForce NOW, making it one of the first major sports titles to deploy AI-driven rendering in place of traditional rasterization. DLSS 5 goes beyond the upscaling and frame generation of earlier DLSS versions—the neural rendering component reworks how lighting and material detail are computed, targeting visually authentic representations of real athlete faces and court surfaces. The feature is accessible to GeForce NOW Ultimate members streaming from RTX 5080-class cloud instances, meaning end users can experience DLSS 5 without owning the GPU hardware. The game streams across PCs, Macs, handhelds, mobile devices, and TVs. Beyond NBA 2K27, NVIDIA's September additions to GeForce NOW include 26 games total, with The Blood of Dawnwalker and Onimusha: Way of the Sword as other notable launches. These titles do not involve DLSS 5 or AI-specific features. For AI practitioners, this is peripheral news: DLSS 5 is applied AI inference in a consumer product, not foundational model development. The significance lies more in the trend—AI inference at gaming scale now ships as a cloud service on NVIDIA hardware, reinforcing the company's position as the infrastructure layer beneath both enterprise AI and mass-market entertainment.