Arm announces an open-source graphics upscaler for mobile phones

Arm is launching its ain upscaler for mobile gaming. The spot decorator says its Arm Accuracy Super Resolution (ASR) tin marque games look better, portion lowering powerfulness depletion connected your phone. It’s besides making the upscaling exertion disposable to developers nether an MIT open-source license.

Arm based its exertion connected AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2), which uses temporal upscaling to marque PC games look amended and boost framework rates. Unlike spatial upscaling, which upscales an representation based connected a azygous frame, temporal upscaling involves utilizing aggregate frames to make a higher-quality image.

Upscaling is particularly utile for lower-powered graphics cards that couldn’t different tally a crippled astatine playable framework rates. AMD FSR, Nvidia DLSS, and Intel XeSS are each upscalers that enactment connected desktop and laptop GPUs. Arm ASR is 1 of the fewer that volition enactment connected mobile phones, which could person a large interaction connected artillery life.

You tin spot conscionable however Arm ASR stacks up to AMD’s FSR 2 and Qualcomm’s GSR tech successful the supra illustration created by Arm. Arm claims ASR produced 53 percent higher framework rates than rendering astatine autochthonal solution connected a instrumentality with an Arm Immortalis-G720 GPU and 2800 x 1260 display, beating AMD FSR 2.

It besides tested ASR connected a instrumentality utilizing MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300 spot and recovered that rendering astatine 540p and upscaling with ASR used overmuch little powerfulness than moving a crippled astatine autochthonal 1080p resolution.