A PC Gamer piece looks at community workarounds that let Nvidia's DLSS technology run on AMD graphics cards, using tools that swap in Nvidia's upscaling and frame-generation libraries even on hardware they weren't designed for. The article, written in a light-hearted, first-person tone, argues that while such swaps are technically possible, they come at a real cost: AMD cards lack the dedicated tensor hardware Nvidia's DLSS relies on, so forcing it to run produces heavy performance penalties rather than the smooth gains Nvidia GPU owners see.

The piece centres on the author's own AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, used as a case study for why running DLSS 5 outside its intended Nvidia ecosystem is more a novelty than a practical upgrade. It frames the exercise as an illustration of the gap between "can be done" and "should be done," noting that without matching hardware acceleration, the workaround shifts extra strain onto the AMD GPU rather than delivering the efficiency DLSS normally provides on Nvidia cards.