NVIDIA hasn’t officially announced it yet, but RTX TrueHDR comes to directly compete with Windows Auto HDR, thereby providing an improved version of the prior technology and which, as we have seen on occasion, allows us to offer substantial improvements with respect to it. And again, we are faced with the use of software in combination with specialized components, and not a brute force milestone.

How do you know, HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, which we can translate as wide or extensive dynamic range. Very briefly, this technology increases the correctly visible range between the darkest and lightest parts of the image and is applied to both still and moving images, both during capture and playback. . For example, we recently told you about its arrival in third-party applications for Android. If you want more information about it, I recommend the very complete guide that my colleague Juan published in March of last year.

Screens with HDR support are becoming more common every day, both in standalone monitors and portable device monitors, so there are already many users who have the key element to enjoy this technology. Of course, the content must be compatible with HDR in order to enjoy the technology. First Windows Auto HDR and now NVIDIA RTX TrueHDR this is no longer the case.

As we can read in TechPowerUp, the technology company is finalizing this technology before making it available to its users. And what does it consist of? NVIDIA RTX TrueHDR converts SDR games to HDR in real time using artificial intelligence. Of course, this can be interesting for games released in the future, but it represents a revolution especially for the existing ones (Directx 9, 11 and 12) with SDR quality (Standard Dynamic Range, i.e. the usual type of picture until the arrival of HDR).

Obviously, RTX TrueHDR is only compatible with NVIDIA graphics adapters, because it uses specific components from the RTX families, and as I said, there is still no official information about its deployment. However, the modding community got to work after revealing the technology (hidden for now) in version 551.23 of the Game Ready drivers (released on January 24th), and in response, an unofficial mod was published today on Nexus Mods, NvTrueHDR. which already allows you to use this technology, and it collects really positive comments, because the result of using this NVIDIA technology seems to be better than the result obtained with Windows Auto HDR.