Qualcomm announced a new technology for mobile gaming called Snapdragon Game Super Resolution or GSR. It can make games run more efficiently and use less power. Super Resolution is a term used in the gaming industry to upscale video resolution from a lower resolution. NVIDIA and AMD have their own upscaling technologies fortified with AI.
There are techniques that make games look better and use less power by upscaling the resolution from a lower one to a native resolution. Bilinear interpolation (bilerp) is a common technique but it can make graphics look blurry. Other techniques require inputs that aren’t commonly used in mobile rendering pipelines.
Qualcomm’s Game Super Resolution method is similar to other upscaling techniques. However, upscaling from a lower resolution can result in a loss of detail and make graphics look blurry. Unlike NVIDIA and AMD, Qualcomm’s GSR technology doesn’t use AI for post-processing to improve the lack of detail.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Game Super Resolution is currently being used to improve graphics in popular mobile games such as Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile, Jade Dynasty: New Fantasy, and Naraka Mobile.
