Nintendo Could Be Using AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution To Boost Performance

An unholy alliance alongside the NVIDIA GPU.

With the Nintendo Switch still going strong in terms of its sales momentum and popularity, Nintendo and various third-parties continue to utilise its mobile technology for the best possible results. There’s little doubt that meeting 2022 expectations around visuals and performance will be a challenge for the system, but an interesting license related to the upcoming Nintendo Switch Sports points to a potential avenue for Nintendo to maximise the hybrid’s capabilities.

As spotted by @NWPlayer123 in the test version download of Nintendo Switch Sports, the game is utilising a license for AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution technology. This is actually open source and free to use, but monetised projects still need to acknowledge its use in license pages like those below. Right now Nintendo seems to be just utilising it in this particular game, but if the results are good it’s not inconceivable that it could be used in other projects.

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