NVIDIA's off-the-shelf GPUs are already capable of supporting Chrome or Edge to upgrade the quality of the display video, but what about AMD?
Microsoft is testing the Video Super Resolution feature in the Edge Canary browser, which helps upgrade and remove strange components on web videos in quality below 720p by using both GPUs supported by AMD and NVIDIA.
Users will need to use GPUs from the GeForce RTX 20 series or Radeon RX5700 or later to use this feature. It will be very useful if users are watching an old YouTube video or want to save bandwidth but still want high image quality.
However, there are still some conditions to apply the new feature on the Edge browser. Users must connect to the source if they are using a laptop, and the video application will not be able to use a digital rights management system (DRM) such as PlayReady or Widevine.
Now, users will also have to force Edge to use their own GPUs if their laptop has a combined graphics setup. Microsoft said that automatic video cross-submitting support is being developed.
This technology of Microsoft is based on the GPU-agnostic algorithm. The tech giant has added a DirectX 12 extension to Google's chromium tool (commonly using DirectX 11) so that its machine can interact with the browser. Along with that, the compression algorithm will help keep the calculated data relatively light.
The company added that the Video Super Resolution feature is currently only available to a few Edge Canary users, but will be available to more users in the "next few weeks". The father of the Windows operating system also plans to expand the list of supported GPUs, so there will be more and more GPUs compatible with this feature.
