Qualcomm upgrades its gaming upscaler from spatial to temporal tech but it lacks AI smarts and may s
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001
Anybody who's anybody in gaming graphics has a high-tech upscaling solution. So, it's no surprise that Qualcomm has announced Snapdragon Game Super Resolution 2, its answer to the likes of Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR.
As the "2" in the moniker suggests, Snapdragon Game Super Resolution 2 is not Qualcomm's first upscaler. However, it is arguably Qualcomm's first advanced upscaler. Very much like AMD's first iteration of FSR was a low-quality and [[link]] pretty basic spatial upscaler which was then replaced by temporal upscaling for FSR 2, the big news with Qualcomm's second-gen scaler is the move from spatial to temporal upscaling.
Exactly how good SGSR 2 will be compared to the more established competition is hard to say, though Qualcomm will have achieved something very special if it achieves performance and image quality parity with Nvidia DLSS from the get-go, especially without AI smarts involved.
Qualcomm isn't absolutely explicit about hardware support for SGSR 2. But we think it's supported across various Snapdragon chips. So that means both smartphones and Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X chips for PCs.
That new Arm SoC has at least some support for AMD's FSR scaler. But, arguably, a decent upscaler will be essential if Qualcomm is to compete with Nvidia and AMD in the PC gaming market. Moreover, if AMD FSR 4 does move to an AI platform, [[link]] it may well require AMD graphics hardware, sidelining the likes of Qualcomm.
As for software support, there's a Snapdragon Game Super Resolution 2 Unreal Engine Plugin for each latest major engine version, and there's support for [[link]] both the Vulkan and OpenGLES APIs. But Qualcomm hasn't actually mentioned any specific game support. There's probably plenty of work to come in getting this new upscaler into a truly competitive position. But you gotta start somewhere, right?
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