Nvidia’s latest AI tech can upscale old blurry YouTube videos
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#67FBZ)
Image: Nvidia Nvidia has turned its AI upscaling technology on a new target: blurry web video. Announced this week during its CES 2023 presentation, RTX Video Super Resolution is designed to upscale video watched through the Chrome or Edge browsers on a PC to the equivalent of 4K. The catch is that you'll need a relatively modern Nvidia GPU to benefit from the feature, with only its most recent 30 and 40-series GPUs listed as getting support when it releases next month.
In practice, a video demonstration of the tech at work on Apex Legends footage shows edges being sharpened, and video artifacts reduced. Nvidia's demo shows RTX Video Super Resolution at work on a YouTube video, but its blog post notes that should work on any video watched in a...