A technical explainer breaks down NVIDIA's DLSS upscaling technology, describing how GPUs render games at a lower internal resolution before upscaling to a monitor's native output using machine learning models trained on motion, depth and brightness data. It outlines the three main presets—Quality, Balanced and Performance—each rendering from a progressively lower starting resolution, trading fidelity for higher frame rates.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-13
An independent developer released TerrainSR, a model trained on paired 100m-to-10m elevation data that generates higher-resolution terrain heightmaps from coarser input. The model excludes built-up and human-modified land from its training data so outputs avoid artifacts like roads or buildings, and on an RTX 4070 it can process a 50x50km patch in 0.74 seconds.
huggingface.co
· 2026-10-07
Sony has introduced Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), a lighter version of its AI upscaling technology previously exclusive to the PlayStation 5 Pro, now available on the standard PS5. Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei will be the first titles to support it, and Sony plans to offer the QSSR library to all PlayStation developers.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-02
Free updates released Thursday for Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei add Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), the first AI-based upscaler to run on the standard PlayStation 5. Digital Foundry testing found QSSR produces sharper images with less shimmering and ghosting than older methods like TAA or FSR 3, though it renders from a lower base resolution than the PS5 Pro's PSSR and costs roughly 9 fps versus Insomniac's own upscaler.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-02
Deep Silver is releasing free updates for Metro 2033 Redux and Metro: Last Light Redux that bring 4K textures, DLSS and PSSR upscaling, spatial audio, and controller haptics support on PS5, PS5 Pro, Xbox Series X/S and PC. The updates arrive October 22 on PC and October 29 on consoles, enabling 4K at 60fps or upscaled 4K at 120fps on compatible displays. The announcement also confirms a new entry, Metro 2039, due February 4, 2027.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-01
Ubisoft has published PC system requirements for Rayman Legends Retold, ranging from a GTX 1060 for 1080p/60fps on lowest settings up to an RTX 4080 or RX 7900 XTX for 4K ultra. Every listed tier, including the minimum spec, requires upscaling (quality mode) to hit its target framerate. The game's storage footprint is a comparatively light 33GB.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-24
Sony's new PlayStation 5 system software update (26.06-14.00.00) turns on the 'Enhance PSSR Image Quality' setting by default for PS5 Pro owners. This applies Sony's newer, upgraded PSSR upscaling algorithm to games originally built around the first version of PSSR, without users needing to manually toggle it. The enhanced PSSR itself launched in March as an optional setting, not a new PSSR 2.0 release.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-22
Developer The Coalition released final PC system requirements for Gears of War: E-Day ahead of its October 6 launch, confirming that upscaling is used across all three preset tiers—Minimum, Recommended, and a newly added Ultra category. The Ultra tier targets 4K at 60+ FPS with an RTX 5070 Ti or Radeon RX 7900 XT paired with high-end CPUs, while storage requirements were trimmed from 130GB to 115GB and Intel Arc GPUs were dropped from the official hardware list despite XeSS 3.0 support.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-18
An analysis breaks down why cheap and expensive smart TVs differ mainly in their system-on-a-chip, which handles video decoding, upscaling, and app performance. Budget TVs often lack AI-assisted upscaling, are capped at 60Hz refresh rates, and tend to run menus and apps more slowly, while pricier models handle 120Hz output and sharper image reconstruction.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-08
Arm has introduced its new Mali G2 series of mobile GPUs, led by the G2-Ultra, which brings neural network-based resolution upscaling to smartphones for the first time. The chip also delivers modest rasterization gains of roughly 9-14% in gaming benchmarks over the previous G1-Ultra, alongside a reworked execution engine with doubled shader registers that better supports advanced rendering techniques like Unreal Engine 5's Lumen and Nanite.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-08
Converting standard footage to 4K resolution requires generating new pixels to fill a larger frame, and there are two main approaches: traditional interpolation, which calculates new pixel values based on surrounding color and brightness data, and AI upscaling, which uses models trained on low- and high-resolution image pairs to predict sharper detail. Older interlaced footage adds another wrinkle, since it must be de-interlaced before either upscaling method can be applied properly.
engadget.com
· 2026-08-24
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