‘Intel is working on video upscaling technology for Chromium browsers’

According to Videogamecardz, Intel is working on an upscaling technique for video that only works in Chromium browsers. The feature has not yet been officially announced, but could already be activated on certain Intel systems via a separate command.

According to Videogamecardz the settings menus of Intel video cards currently do not contain an option to activate the upscaling technology. The feature can be enabled by calling up the ‘Properties’ shortcut menu of a Chromium app and then clicking the ‘Shortcut’ tab. Under ‘Target’ a user should type the following command: –enable-features=IntelVpSuperResolution .

The upscaling technology is available from Chrome version 109. To use the function, at least a 10th generation Intel CPU with integrated GPU is required, according to Videogamecardz. The upscaling technique would also work in combination with an Intel Arc video card. It is not certain whether users who meet these technical requirements can also use the upscaling technique. The editors of the tech website report that they have not been able to get the function to work themselves, despite the fact that they have an 11th generation Intel CPU with integrated GPU.

Intel has not yet officially responded to the rumors. It is currently unclear when the feature will actually be rolled out and what the system requirements will be. The company also has an upscaling technique in-house, but specifically for games: XeSS. This temporal upscaling technique allows a game to be rendered at a lower resolution and information from current and previous frames is used to scale the image to a higher resolution. Other examples of temporal upscaling technology are Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR 2.0.