Topaz Labs optimizes video AI software for AMD'amp;s Ryzen AI

[12:21 Thu,12.October 2023 by Rudi Schmidts]

Topaz Labs is one of the "commercial AI pioneers", having developed AI models for photo and video processing at a particularly early stage. Today, the company is considered one of the leaders in easy-to-use video upscaling, deinterlacing, frame interpolation/slow motion and stabilizing. Topaz Labs has also developed its own AI models for denoising or re-sharpening photos.

If you want to use such AI filters productively, there are basically two ways: either you send the clip to an AI cloud data center or you calculate the effects on your home computer. In the second case, you usually need a very powerful GPU - whereby the really current models from research often cannot even be tried out on home GPUs, because they have too little GPU memory for this.

Change of scene to AMD: At the beginning of the year, AMD introduced a programmable IP add-on for its 7040 series laptop processors with the acquired Xilinx FPGA technology. This technology, christened "Ryzen AI" technology, allows AI (ONYX) models to run at a greatly accelerated rate. You can practically think of this as a dedicated accelerator chip for AI models that does not require additional GPU power.

Until now, however, AMD was only ridiculed for "Ryzen AI" because there were no apps for the AI accelerator apart from a demo for blurring a background in video conferences. But that seems to be changing now. Because Topaz Labs announced yesterday that it will support "Ryzen AI" with its video filters. This should mean that the time-consuming calculations can now be executed much faster on AMD laptops with Ryzen AI acceleration. We are already very curious about the speed increases compared to a GPU that we can expect in the future.

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