RTX 20-series GPUs upgrade to smoother streaming with RTX VSR 1.5

NVIDIA has announced its latest software upgrades today, which now include those that "bring the power of generative AI natively to more than 100 million Windows PCs and workstations" as well as, say, Game Ready Drivers. However, the latter brings something of potential interest to those with slightly older PCs.

RTX VSR version 1.5 is backed to make streamed content look smoother, especially at native resolutions such as 1080p, and also imparts these potential UX improvement on Turing cards, be they 'professional'- or 'consumer'-grade.

Otherwise, there is also now TensorRT acceleration for Stable Diffusion as provided by Web UI by Automatic1111. It is rated to "double the speed" of this open-source model and is also touted to be up to "7x faster than the top implementation" on M2 Ultra-powered top-end Macs when run on an RTX 4090.

The new TensorRT-LLM inference-accelerating library, on the other hand, is backed to make generative AI on Windows PCs "up to 4x faster" by boosting inference for models such as LLaMa 2 and Code LLaMa. In practice, the upgrade might result in models capable of responses that are both quicker and more accurate.

It will be available "soon", whereas the other 2 upgrades are all available from today (October 17, 2023). However, the version of NVIDIA's Studio Driver with RTX VSR 1.5 will not be released until early November 2023.

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