Nvidia is launching a new feature today for all RTX GPU owners: RTX Video HDR. Just like Nvidia's RTX Video Super Resolution can improve old, blurry web videos, RTX Video HDR uses ai to convert SDR color space videos to HDR. You just need an HDR10 compatible monitor with HDR enabled in Windows.
RTX Video HDR is part of today's 551.23 Controller ready for game launch for the launch of the new RTX 4070 Ti Super. The Video HDR feature works in both Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, and during my testing on an HDR600 monitor, I noticed that it adds subtle color details to 4K YouTube videos that weren't loaded in HDR. The effect might be more obvious on a better HDR monitor, but it was hard to notice unless you turned it on and off a few times. I found similar results when I previously tried RTX Video Super Resolution to upscale and enhance old YouTube videos.
If you have an HDR monitor and an RTX card, you can download the latest drivers from Nvidia and head to the Nvidia Control Panel to enable RTX Video HDR. It's available under Video > Adjust Video Image Settings in the Nvidia Control Panel, in the same location where you can enable RTX video super resolution.
Like many of Nvidia's ai-powered features, RTX Video HDR requires an RTX card as it takes advantage of the tensor cores that Nvidia began including in its RTX 20 series GPUs. Nvidia also uses artificial intelligence techniques for its Deep Learning system Super Sampling (DLSS) to improve frame rate and image quality in games. Nvidia also launched its Deep Learning Dynamic Super Resolution (DLDSR) system in 2022 to improve image quality when rendering games at higher resolution. Nvidia Broadcast also includes an eye contact feature that uses ai to make it appear like you're making eye contact during video calls.
The latest version of Nvidia's 551.23 driver also adds support for Ultra Low Latency mode with DirectX 12 games. It's a mode worth enabling in games without Nvidia Reflex support, as it reduces the render queue directly to the driver level in instead of the game managing the queue.
