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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 science. This could betoken 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 within Nintendo Switch Sports lists both AMD's FidelityFX and FidelityFX Super-Resolution open up-source algorithm as being in the game in some way. FSR is AMD'southward answer to Nvidia's DLSS and is used to increase frame rates and upscale from lower resolutions with little impact on hardware capabilities. This could, as an case, hateful that Switch games can be developed 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 prototype sharpness.

Despite the Switch using an Nvidia Tegra X1 graphics card, the console is able to take advantage of AMD's operation-boosting FSR algorithm on a game-by-game basis due to its open up-source nature. Moving forward, we could potentially be seeing Switch games with better graphics and operation thanks to the wizardry of FSR.

Nintendo Switch Sports looks to be testing the waters of the technology on the Switch. It'southward a super cheap way for Nintendo to maximize the visuals information technology can get out of the now-dated Switch hardware without necessarily needing to invest in a whole new Nintendo Switch Pro.