[STEAM][PRESS]Microsoft’s ‘Auto Super Resolution’ DLSS competitor isn’t exclusive to Qualcomm

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The NPU inside Copilot Plus PCs takes the stage at a

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Surface and AI event. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge When you

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, you might get an AI frame rate boost from

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’s mysterious

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(Auto SR) feature. But while

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hasn’t fully explained how the feature works, The Verge can now confirm it’s not Qualcomm technology, not exclusive to Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X chips, and not exclusive to specific games, either.

You’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise!

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bluntly states that a Snapdragon X chip is required — see screenshot — and that all of its processing “occurs on-device using the integrated GPU and Neural Processing Unit.”

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But Qualcomm now tells us that Super Resolution is...

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