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In some potentially game-changing news for the Switch, Nintendo Switch Sports looks as if it is using chip-manufacturing giant AMD'due south FidelityFX and FidelityFX Super-Resolution (FSR) engineering. This could bespeak the beginning of a new dawn for increased frame rates and potentially upgraded visuals in Switch games.

Revealed by NWPlayer123 on Twitter, the licensing agreements inside Nintendo Switch Sports lists both AMD'south FidelityFX and FidelityFX Super-Resolution open up-source algorithm as being in the game in some way. FSR is AMD'south answer to Nvidia'south DLSS and is used to increase frame rates and upscale from lower resolutions with niggling impact on hardware capabilities. This could, equally an example, mean that Switch games can exist adult at native 900p or lower and upscaled to 1080p, maintaining the college quality textures and increased frame rates the lower native resolution allows without taking a noticeable hit to overall visual quality and epitome sharpness.

Despite the Switch using an Nvidia Tegra X1 graphics bill of fare, the panel is able to accept advantage of AMD'due south performance-boosting FSR algorithm on a game-by-game basis due to its open-source nature. Moving forward, we could potentially be seeing Switch games with ameliorate graphics and performance thanks to the wizardry of FSR.

Nintendo Switch Sports looks to be testing the waters of the engineering science on the Switch. It's a super cheap mode for Nintendo to maximize the visuals it tin can go out of the now-dated Switch hardware without necessarily needing to invest in a whole new Nintendo Switch Pro.