ARM unveils its own mobile upscaling solution, Game Supersolution, to compete with Qualcomm. The goal: Increase gaming performance while reducing smartphone power consumption.
Scaling technologies have been gradually appearing in the mobile ecosystem since last year. We already know Nvidia's DLSS or AMD's FSR on PC and consoles, and now we know Qualcomm's GSR (Game Supersolution) and OnePlus' Hyper Rendering.
This basic feature is now useful for more demanding games. It is now ARM's turn to come up with its own solution called Ultra HDwhich according to the company should outperform Qualcomm in every way.
Better quality on mobile
As a reminder, the ARM architecture is widely used in all mobile devices, from smartphones to tablets. It is the basis of chips made by Qualcomm, Samsung and even Apple. If each of these manufacturers could develop its own technologyUpgrade To improve the display of video games, this is also the case with ARM that detects super high resolution (or ARM ASR).
This is a scaling solution to increase smartphone gaming performance by displaying at low resolution while displaying the image at the screen's native definition thanks to the smart scaling algorithm.
Each technology has its own strengths and weaknesses, and ARM has chosen to rely on AMD's FSR2, an open-source solution that has proven itself in recent years on PCs and especially mobile consoles. Unlike Qualcomm's GSR, super-resolution is an interim upgrade, relying on previous images to reconstruct the base image with as few artifacts and ghosting effects as possible.
Faster games consume less
According to ARM's first tests, the results seem to be there. The final image quality is far superior to Qualcomm's solution, with performance gains of up to 40-50%. The advantage of this technology on mobile is also in reducing power consumption during gaming, by 20-30% depending on the setting used.
Note that Arm ASR does not in any way use AI and machine learning in this process, just like AMD's FSR 2. Therefore, it is not planned (at the moment) to offer image generation technology as in OnePlus and soon in Qualcomm.
If we are not supposed to see this technology reach Snapdragon smartphones, it will certainly be used in many devices based on MediaTek's Dimensity chips. We are thinking in particular of Chinese brands such as Realme, Redmi and Honor, but also the giant Samsung in some of its entry-level and mid-range models.
