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Jeremy Laird

Qualcomm upgrades its gaming upscaler from spatial to temporal tech but it lacks AI smarts and may struggle to compete with Nvidia's highly polished DLSS performance

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite on an electronic background.

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 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.

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