Nvidia’s newest AI tech can upscale previous blurry YouTube movies

Nvidia has turned its AI upscaling know-how on a brand new goal: blurry net video. Announced this week throughout its CES 2023 presentation, RTX Video Super Resolution is designed to upscale video watched via the Chrome or Edge browsers on a PC to the equal of 4K. The catch is that you just’ll want a comparatively fashionable Nvidia GPU to profit from the function, with solely its most up-to-date 30 and 40-series GPUs listed as getting assist when it releases subsequent month.

In follow, a video demonstration of the tech at work on Apex Legends footage reveals edges being sharpened, and video artifacts diminished. Nvidia’s demo reveals RTX Video Super Resolution at work on a YouTube video, however its blog post notes that ought to work on “any video watched in a browser,” which ought to cowl different streaming companies like Netflix. PCGamer reports that it helps any video with a decision of between 360p and 1440p (together with typical 1080p video), as much as a body fee of 144Hz.

Nvidia has beforehand made its video AI upscaling know-how obtainable on its devoted Shield TV and Shield TV Pro streaming gadgets, however bringing it to the browser ought to make it obtainable to a a lot bigger viewers. It’s already impressed us on Shield TV gadgets, with my colleague Chris Welch remarking in 2019 that it resulted in a noticeable enhance in readability with the function enabled.

The solely actual draw back is Nvidia limiting the know-how to individuals with its most up-to-date 30 or 40-series GPUs, which implies anybody with an older 20 or 10-series card received’t profit when it launches in February. I’m not going to fake to grasp the {hardware} necessities of an AI-based function like this, however given Nvidia’s 20-series launched with assist for its game-focused DLSS AI upscaling know-how, I’m crossing my fingers that this new function will finally make its strategy to at the least some older playing cards.