Last year, ARM introduced its Accuracy Super Resolution technology<\/a>. This is what\u2019s called a \u201ctemporal\u201d upscaler, which uses information from multiple frames to generate the upscaled image. The chip architecture designers said that temporal super samplers are hard to scale, but \u201cNeural Super Sampling\u201d is something built for mobile. It\u2019s running on trained AI models that help generate the majority of the pixels from an image rendered at 540p and upscaled to 1080p. ARM claims this technique creates visuals that look close to what\u2019s rendered without any softened edges or muddy textures.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s largest PC chip and graphics card makers, including AMD, Intel, and Nvidia, all promote their own super sampling technology. Early examples of the tech, including Nvidia\u2019s first versions of DLSS, or deep learning super sampling, could introduce a bevy of graphical glitches that would hinder the experience despite the better performance. Today\u2019s tech, including DLSS 4<\/a> and AMD\u2019s FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR)<\/a>, is so close to native rendering that some games set upscaling on by default.<\/p>\n While some past upscalers have been hardware agnostic, DLSS and FSR prove that super sampling created specifically for the hardware will inevitably produce much better results, both in performance and visual fidelity. That\u2019s why ARM\u2019s version may prove so dramatic for future smartphones. More players game on mobile worldwide than on both PC and console. Games like Honkai Star Rail and PUBG Mobile don\u2019t have system requirements that demand much power, and most modern phones can run each of these games without issue. The problem is trying to get big-budget AAA games to run on such small devices. I\u2019ve seen Resident Evil 4 played on an iPhone 16 Pro<\/a>, and it\u2019s hard to ignore the lack of detail, muddy textures, and jagged lines compared to the same game played on even a moderately powerful laptop. There\u2019s also a chance Neural Super Sampling could vastly improve battery life on smartphones when playing intensive 3D games. Titles like Honkai\u00a0normally chew through battery life when rendering the game at the maximum resolution.<\/p>\n ARM\u2019s new AI upscaler tech is all still pie in the sky until chipmakers and game developers start to take it into account. Upscalers can introduce latency into a game caused by the time it takes for the hardware to process the upscaled frame, which could create a sense of lag when in game. Some chip designs may introduce more lag depending on how makers configure the next-gen GPU, or graphics processing unit. Chipmakers also need to actually enable the neural hardware on future chips, which means we won\u2019t see this technology for at least another year, if not more.<\/p>\n Developers also have to get on board. Though ARM said it\u2019s providing extras like a plugin for Unreal Engine 5\u2014one of the most popular game engines today\u2014game makers need to test what kind of performance uplift they could get from Neural Super Sampling. The audiences for mobile and traditional platforms like PC and console are distinct. Publishers and developers will need to know that this tech works, that there will be enough phone chips using it, and that the audience is there and hungry for bigger and better phone games before any of them put in the work to add Neural Super Sampling compatibility. There are reasons to be optimistic. Our phones are already powerful enough; they may be outstripping older consoles. HoYoverse, the developers behind\u00a0Genshin Impact, said<\/a> it was removing the game from the PlayStation 4 because of \u201climitations related to hardware performance and platform application size.\u201d It\u2019s still available for iPhone and Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s PCs don\u2019t have to be so powerful to get strong performance out of games, and it\u2019s mostly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[6143,21392,559,165,4321,74],"class_list":["post-79283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-amd","tag-arm","tag-gaming","tag-mobile","tag-nvidia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Enchanted](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Enchanted_Castle_ARM-NSS-Tech-Demo.gif\")
ARM claims its NSS tech can upscale games without any notable loss in visual quality. \u00a9 ARM <\/p>\n