Nvidia GPUs Can Now Automatically Upscale Videos on a Browser
The latest driver for Nvidia’s GPUs can upgrade the videos you watch on a browser by tapping AI algorithms to make the image quality sharper and clearer.
Nvidia today rolled out a new feature called RTX Video Super Resolution(Opens in a new window) (VSR), which can boost lower-quality video up to 4K resolution. The feature is coming to RTX 3000 and 4000 GPUs for desktops and laptops through the company’s GeForce Game Ready Driver version 531.18.
“RTX Video Super Resolution uses AI and RTX Tensor Cores (built into the GPUs) to improve the quality of video watched in a Chrome or Edge browser by removing blocky compression artifacts and upscaling video resolution,” the company said in the announcement(Opens in a new window).
Nvidia created the feature to address how most of the video offered over the internet is at 1080p quality or lower. Hence, the online video can suffer when watched over a higher-resolution 1440p or 4K display, which requires the browser to scale the images on a large screen space.
RTX VSR uses AI-powered computer models to predict and create higher-resolution copies of lower-quality images. Specifically, it creates a “residual image at the target resolution,” and then superimposes it on top of a traditional upscaled image to correct errors.
The resulting effect can remove the blocky and ringed image artifacts that persist in video streamed over a browser. "Edges look sharper, hair looks scruffier and landscapes pop with striking clarity," Nvidia wrote in a blog post(Opens in a new window).
Nvidia says RTX Video Super Resolution "supports video input resolutions from 360p to 1440p." But don't expect the technology to work miracles.
PCMag's Michael Justin Allen Sexton got VSR running on a PC, and
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