Nvidia actually offers four quality preset levels with VSR, with varying levels of visual effectiveness and performance impact. The less good news? RTX VSR will send performance plummeting if you do that, so you won’t want to leave YouTube videos playing on a second screen while you’re slaying noobs in Call of Duty. The good news: It’s only a concern when you’re actively gaming and watching a video simultaneously. Virtual Super Resolution uses your Nvidia RTX graphics card’s GPU and tensor core muscle to achieve its effects, so it stands to reason that activating it can hinder gaming performance. $1,659.99 at Amazon | Not Available at Best Buy As with DLSS, VSR’s AI tensor cores can struggle when it’s trying to upscale video with exceptionally low native pixel counts. I also watched the Top Gun Maverick trailer on YouTube, manually setting the resolution to 480p (a.k.a standard VHS definition) and watching it full-screen on my 4K display. …but there are limits to its effectiveness. It’s still absolutely worth activating VSR, though. Watching a video of Stodeh’s favorite Call of Duty: MW2 DMZ moments definitely looks better overall with VSR active, but it has more difficulty eliminating some of the blockiness and blurriness, especially in fast-moving scenes with complex gameplay occurring (such as when Stodeh failed a helicopter extraction and needed to pop smoke grenades with bullets whizzing by around the 1:35 mark of the linked video). RTX Video Super Resolution also cleans up gameplay video on YouTube and Twitch to noticeable effect, but their lower bitrates somewhat stunt the impact. Like DLSS, VSR can be pixel-peeped in individual frames but the overall in-motion effect looks outstanding. But don’t be fooled RTX Video Super Resolution looks stunning in motion compared to standard web video, and you don’t notice those potential nitpicks whatsoever when a video is playing. It’s something common to all the screenshots I took. In close inspection, this static image may look overly crisp and smoothed out, with more sharpening than you’d usually expect to see. More on that later.) On Firefox, the 1080p video looks blurry and blocky in full-screen stretched across my 4K panel turning on VSR in Chrome immediately ended that, delivering a crisp, clean image that left my jaw on the floor. (It offers four different quality levels, with varying levels of GPU performance impact. Watching Holey Moley on Hulu and Drink Masters on Netflix with RTX Video Super Resolution Active was transformative, even on VSR’s lowest quality preset. The biggest difference can be seen in videos with a crisp, clear, production-quality 1080p image at a high bitrate. I watched a wide variety of 1080p videos on my 4K displays, alternating between Firefox (which doesn’t support VSR) and Chrome to see the difference between native 1080p and VSR-upscaled 4K in real time, and it’s flat-out revolutionary. Once you’ve tried it, you’ll never want to go back to standard web video. (I received access to the feature late Friday, when our production team was busy working on Ryzen 9 7950X3D coverage, and was unable to capture video footage of RTX Super Resolution in action.)įirst, though, I want to talk about the experience of using RTX Video Super Resolution. RTX Video Super Resolution is similar, but you can spot some differences in freeze-frames. Remember the first time you ever played a game on an adaptive sync G-Sync or FreeSync monitor? The difference in moment-to-moment game feel was monumental, but it doesn’t come across very well in screenshots that only capture a static image in time. RTX Video Super Resolution works like black magic…usually “Your 480p video will upres to 1080p on a 1080p screen (in full-screen mode) or somewhere between 480p and 1080p depending on the size of the playback window,” Nvidia’s Jordan Dodge told me, and my tests confirm the fact. It doesn’t upscale at fixed resolutions either, instead adjusting to fit the size of the display window. While Keith focused on upscaling a 1080p image to 4K in his CES video, RTX Video Super Resolution can automatically upscale a wide range of video resolutions, from lowly 360p all the way up to 1440p. There’s a bit more happening behind the scenes though. “The final image isn’t going to be a true representation of what would look like, because you’re working with a 1080p source, but it’s going to look substantially better.” “It runs through an algorithm that softens the darks and the blacks that get crushed and blown out and blocky, and then it’s going to take all of your high-contrast areas-like user interface elements-and make them really sharp,” Keith explained.
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