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Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos

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Re: Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos

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Old games like Quake always look pretty janky when upscaled (extreme example of course). The low-poly models seem to become worse the closer you can look at them. I wonder if there’s a level of detail that just fundamentally can be upscaled indefinitely and end up vaguely “looking right”, or if it is just the case that something like Apex Legend was release recently enough that the lift is not so huge.

Maybe the "upscaler" just needs to be a really good CRT emulation.

Re: Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos

#22

I've been blown away at the AI upscaling on the Nvidia Shield. On my fairly large 4K TV, the Shield can produce picture quality that looks incredible out of source that isn't all that great. On that note, the Shield has been an unexpectedly great purchase over the years. Long life of support from Nvidia, runs Google TV, works incredibly as a gaming console for Steam Linking into my PC and/or playing compatible Androi…

> the Shield can produce picture quality that looks incredible out of source that isn't all that great.

So much for garbage in, garbage out.

Re: Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos

#23

I've been blown away at the AI upscaling on the Nvidia Shield. On my fairly large 4K TV, the Shield can produce picture quality that looks incredible out of source that isn't all that great. On that note, the Shield has been an unexpectedly great purchase over the years. Long life of support from Nvidia, runs Google TV, works incredibly as a gaming console for Steam Linking into my PC and/or playing compatible Androi…

I like the hardware in the shield but Android TV kind of kills it for me. When I was still using my shield, the UI would frequently get updated, and each update made the home screen worse and worse.

I wish they would just copy the Apple TV's home screen. All anyone needs is a grid of icons and NO ADVERTISEMENTS. There is no more room for innovation here. Stop trying to re-invent the wheel. Just admit someone else already perfected it and move on.

Re: Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos

#24

I have watched 3kliksphilip and LinusTechTips demo video upscaling AI stuff, and it always looks really really weird and gross. It seems really unnatural, and has the same kind of "nope that's wrong" as if you maxed the saturation on the photo. It feels more like a highschooler touching everything up in photoshop than correctly understanding what the objects in the video should look like. Also, in their recent demo o…

> Nvidia clearly kneecapped the pre-upscale footage

I'm not so sure. High bitrate content like game streaming does end up losing visual quality with lossy encoding. The average 1080p Twitch stream struggles to look as clean as Nvidia's 1080p source footage.

Given the circumstances, I think this is a great option. Most videos don't look right when encoded on YouTube or blown up at 2x resolution. A destructive AI pipeline is your best shot at reducing the destructive artifacting introduced at the encoding stage.

Re: Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos

#25

I've been blown away at the AI upscaling on the Nvidia Shield. On my fairly large 4K TV, the Shield can produce picture quality that looks incredible out of source that isn't all that great. On that note, the Shield has been an unexpectedly great purchase over the years. Long life of support from Nvidia, runs Google TV, works incredibly as a gaming console for Steam Linking into my PC and/or playing compatible Androi…

I like the hardware in the shield but Android TV kind of kills it for me. When I was still using my shield, the UI would frequently get updated, and each update made the home screen worse and worse. I wish they would just copy the Apple TV's home screen. All anyone needs is a grid of icons and NO ADVERTISEMENTS. There is no more room for innovation here. Stop trying to re-invent the wheel. Just admit someone else alr…

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Re: Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos

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I've just tried this and I can't tell any difference. Could it be because my laptop has an Intel and an nVidia 3060 I wonder?

Have you tried this? > To enable it, launch the NVIDIA Control Panel and open “Adjust video image settings.” Check the super resolution box under “RTX video enhancement” and select a quality from one to four — ranging from the lowest impact on GPU performance to the highest level of upscaling improvement.

Yes thank you, I did try that. I can enable it and turn it from 1 to 4 but I wonder if it's because Chrome and Edge are both using my Intel GPU by default.

Re: Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos

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I've been blown away at the AI upscaling on the Nvidia Shield. On my fairly large 4K TV, the Shield can produce picture quality that looks incredible out of source that isn't all that great. On that note, the Shield has been an unexpectedly great purchase over the years. Long life of support from Nvidia, runs Google TV, works incredibly as a gaming console for Steam Linking into my PC and/or playing compatible Androi…

For the newer GPUs nvidia's open kernel modules have created less hair pulling for me and are much more comparable to amdgpu than the traditional modules. Recently I was reading Nouveau is working on re-clocking support on newer GPUs via GSP support which is just starting to be upstreamed, that'll be even nicer if it materializes.

Re: Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos

#29

I've been blown away at the AI upscaling on the Nvidia Shield. On my fairly large 4K TV, the Shield can produce picture quality that looks incredible out of source that isn't all that great. On that note, the Shield has been an unexpectedly great purchase over the years. Long life of support from Nvidia, runs Google TV, works incredibly as a gaming console for Steam Linking into my PC and/or playing compatible Androi…

I have an Nvidia Shield pro and I have to say it's been a significant cause of frustration for me. 1-2 second audio drops on occasion, apps that have glaring bugs (such as freezes or inability to go forward/backwards) that I suspect is due to lack of adoption, adverts on the home screen. I haven't switched off of it, I guess, but I wish I had something better.

Re: Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos

#30

I've been blown away at the AI upscaling on the Nvidia Shield. On my fairly large 4K TV, the Shield can produce picture quality that looks incredible out of source that isn't all that great. On that note, the Shield has been an unexpectedly great purchase over the years. Long life of support from Nvidia, runs Google TV, works incredibly as a gaming console for Steam Linking into my PC and/or playing compatible Androi…

I have an Nvidia Shield pro and I have to say it's been a significant cause of frustration for me. 1-2 second audio drops on occasion, apps that have glaring bugs (such as freezes or inability to go forward/backwards) that I suspect is due to lack of adoption, adverts on the home screen. I haven't switched off of it, I guess, but I wish I had something better.

Fascinating, thanks. I've been considering the Pro, but my current one still does everything I need it to and more so I can't justify the purchase, but this makes me a little more content with my status quo.
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