NVIDIA RTX Video Super Resolution is an exciting new feature for GeForce RTX 40 and 30 Series GPUs that uses AI to improve the quality of any video watched in a browser by removing blocky compression artifacts and upscaling video resolution. According to an update from what appears to be Manuel Guzman (Software QA at NVIDIA), the feature is on track to be released this month as initially promised, and users will be able to find it as part of the upcoming R530 driver branch. Google Chrome 110 has already been released with RTX Video Super Resolution enabled by default, although the feature will also be available for Edge, Microsoft’s browser.
NVIDIA’s Romain Pokrzywka on RTX Video Super Resolution:
Similar to the feature that was added for Intel GPUs with https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1318380, we want to enable AI-based upscaling on Windows for supported NVIDIA GPUs via the ID3D11VideoProcessor interface.
The feature will be gated by the same disable_vp_super_resolution flag to ensure a minimum required nvidia driver version (currently targeted at version 530.xx). There will be no deviceid-based gating, the driver will decide this internally with only the latest generation of GPUs being supported initially.
Just like for the Intel counterpart, the feature has an impact on the GPU power consumption during video playback, so it will only be active when we are running on an external power supply and automatically disabled when we detect a switch to battery power.
There is no user-accessible toggle provided through Chromium, instead a new system-wide option will be added to the NVIDIA Control Panel application for users who want to manually turn the feature off.
From an NVIDIA blog post:
Coming to GeForce RTX 40 and 30 Series GPUs next month, the RTX Video Super Resolution feature uses AI to improve the quality of any video watched in a browser by removing blocky compression artifacts and upscaling video resolution. This improves video sharpness and clarity, and lets people watch online content in its native resolution on high-resolution displays. RTX Video Super Resolution will be available in February for Chrome and Edge browsers.