NOVEMBER 2020 PCWorld 75Nvidia Broadcast app leverages that AI
hardware to provide streamers with all sorts of
nifty on-the-fly effects, ranging from the magical
RTX Video noise-cancellation feature (go.
pcworld.com/rtxv) to video effects that include
adjustable background blur, greenscreen-style
background replacement, and automatic
head-tracking effects. If they work as well as
advertised, Broadcast could be a huge help in
giving some pro-level setup polish to amateur
streams—no investment in pricey greenscreens
or fancy webcams required.
Finally, RTX IO is innovative new technology
that taps into Microsoft’s DirectStorage API to
let your NVMe SSD funnel data directly to your
GPU, skipping the pokey CPU and system
memory bottlenecks. It sounds like the drool-
worthy storage tech inside the next-gen Xbox
Series X (go.pcworld.com/xser) and Port report.
PlayStation 5
(go.pcworld.
com/snp5)
consoles. It
won’t be
available in
actual games
until next year
at the earliest,
alas, but if it
takes off, this
could be a
huge deal for
PC gaming.
Read our
article on how Microsoft and Nvidia plan to
kill game-loading times on PCs, if you want to
know more (go.pcworld.com/ldtm). (We also
expect AMD’s “Big Navi” Radeon RTX
6000-series graphics cards [go.pcworld.
com/bign] to support Microsoft
DirectStorage in some way when they’re
revealed on October 28.)Nvidia’s Founder’s Edition is a looker.