AI upscaling is about to transform Android gaming forever

AI upscaling is heading to mobile games, whether you like it or not. AI upscaling is about to transform Android gaming forever. Ray tracing is one of the most recent examples, bringing a trimmed-down, lightweight version of the powerhouse lighting tech to our pockets at a fraction of the power draw.

But in the meantime, desktop-class GPUs have raced ahead with neural network-assisted resolution upscaling and frame-rate generation, enabling 4K/120 fps gameplay without the traditional rendering effort. Your next smartphone could soon has AI-assisted upscaling, if it features a newly unveiled Arm Mali NX GPU. Meet the Arm Mali G2-Ultra Before we get into the AI enhancements found in this year’s Mali graphics chips, we need to dive into the core architecture and portfolio change in the G2 series.

If you’re after the raw performance numbers, Arm lists quite a range of results. Gaming performance increases by 9% (Honkair Starrail) to 14% (Fortnite) when comparing the 14-core Mali G1-Ultra reference platform to the G2-Ultra equivalent (which also features a 1.53GHz versus 1.70GHz shader core clock difference).