DLSS 5 port to second GPU cuts RTX 5060 Ti FPS drop to 9%

A Reddit user reports that porting DLSS 5 to the second GPU in a dual-card setup cut the frame rate penalty from 59% to 9%. The post, shared in r/pcgaming, describes pairing an RTX 5060 Ti as the secondary card and applying DLSS 5 to it, a configuration the poster says makes dual-GPU setups viable again.

The claim rests on a single user report and could not be independently verified. The post's full details, including the primary GPU used, the workload tested, and the method for porting DLSS 5 across cards, were not accessible. Multi-GPU rendering largely disappeared from consumer PCs after Nvidia dropped SLI support on newer cards, and DLSS frame generation has typically run on the primary GPU.

If the result holds, it would suggest DLSS 5's frame generation can be offloaded to a second card, reviving a configuration the industry abandoned. Until benchmarks or developer confirmation appear, the 9% figure should be treated as an anecdote.