DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation is coming to Nvidia App beta users on March 31, bringing on-the-fly 6x frame gen switching to RTX 50-series owners

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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter DLSS 4.5 may have been with us since January of this year, but one of its most interesting features, Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, is finally coming to Nvidia app beta users on March 31.The update boosts the top frame gen count for RTX 50-series GPUs to 6x, being made up of five AI generated frames to the one rendered traditionally by your graphics card. It also allows the upscaler to shift around the number of frames generated on the fly, hence the term “dynamic”.Give it a frame rate target to hit, and it’ll swap around the number of generated frames depending on the demands of the scene—which should mean locked fps, high-frame rate gaming and a bridging of performance dips, designed to create a silky-smooth gaming experience.Article continues below You may like Nvidia’s promising ‘4K 240 Hz path traced gaming’ with DLSS 4.5 but do you want 6x Multi Frame Gen? Intel has released the SDK for XeSS 3 so hopefully it won’t be long before Arc GPU owners get in on native multi frame gen action I’ve put Nvidia’s new DLSS 4.5 to the test: Here’s how to enable it yourself and whether you should That’s the theory, anyway. That being said, I did get a chance to see Dynamic Multi Frame Generation in action at CES 2026, and came away pretty impressed with the transition between 2x, 4x, and 6x frame gen in The Outer Worlds 2.I spent some time running backwards and forwards between two areas, on