# DLSS 5 Neural Rendering: reconstructing a runtime model from DLL analysis

> DLSS 5 Neural Rendering reconstructs parts of NVIDIA's model from static analysis of nvngx_dlssnr.dll 310.8.0.0 shipped with NBA 2K27. It documents a 153-record weight container, a 71-block Swin/ViT structure and numerical references for selected operators. The author reports byte-for-byte agreement for one FFN operator across 24 comparisons.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Binary
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://huggingface.co/inarikami/dlss5-nr-reverse-engineering>
- Primary source: <https://huggingface.co/inarikami/dlss5-nr-reverse-engineering/blob/2f3db2562d18f750169c85ed947dc15bffca5a3b/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dlss5-nr-reverse-engineering-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/dlss5-nr-reverse-engineering-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/dlss5-nr-reverse-engineering-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The readers require the user's own copy of nvngx_dlssnr.dll 310.8.0.0 and its extracted WEIGHTS_HT resource.
- **Prerequisites:** Parsing, references and tests use PyTorch 2.14.0+cpu; native comparison requires a Blackwell GPU.
- **Limits:** A full forward pass and most operator comparisons remain unfinished.
- **License:** No licence stated on the project page.

## Primary sources

1. <https://huggingface.co/inarikami/dlss5-nr-reverse-engineering/blob/2f3db2562d18f750169c85ed947dc15bffca5a3b/README.md>

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