GameGPU reported 51–52 FPS with DLSS 5 Neural Rendering enabled in War Thunder, compared with 90–91 FPS with it off. Its November 4, 2026 report described a test on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 at native 4K (3840 × 2160), with DLSS 4.5 and path tracing active.
The reported FPS result
| Neural Rendering | FPS reported by GameGPU |
| Off | 90–91 FPS |
| On | 51–52 FPS |
Those figures apply to the RTX 5090 setup and graphics conditions GameGPU described. The report also gave secondary readings: about 75°C and 597 W before Neural Rendering, then a peak of 601 W and a clock change from 2570 MHz to 2520 MHz after it was enabled. These are GameGPU’s reported measurements for that test.
Which GPUs the official forum named
On November 3, 2026, War Thunder community manager Stona_WT said that official DLSS 5 compatibility was limited to RTX 50 Series and NVIDIA Spark. RTX 40 Series was not among the hardware groups named in that reply. The official forum thread also announced planned support in the Eagle’s Shadow major update. GameGPU separately reported that public access was scheduled for mid-November.
The forum describes DLSS 5’s 3D-Guided Neural Rendering as analyzing rendered frames alongside color, motion vectors and depth information to modify lighting, materials and shading. The feature’s announced role helps explain why the FPS result is tied to a specific rendering setup; it does not make one result a forecast for every GPU or scene.
What one benchmark can tell you
GameGPU’s reported numbers describe one RTX 5090 configuration. They are not a cross-GPU comparison or a general FPS result for War Thunder. The performance question is also separate from visual judgment: a creator’s image comparison can offer a look at presentation, but it does not supply a controlled frame-rate measurement.
NeoTeo has covered another game’s external DLSS 5-style processing in its report on 007 First Light performance tests. For War Thunder, d9d9 Artem’s Russian-language video shows edited side-by-side tank images and discusses hardware compatibility; it is visual commentary, not an FPS benchmark.
