Arm has announced a new technology that will add specialized neural processors (neurocores) — similar to the Tensor Cores in NVIDIA graphics cards — to mobile GPUs coming in 2026. This will allow AI to be used for upscaling, frame rate boosting, and other tasks previously only available to PCs and consoles.
Arm claims that Neural Super Sampling (NSS) technology can upscale from 540p to 1080p in just 4ms per frame without any loss of quality. This reduces the load on the GPU by up to 50%, allowing for energy savings, increased performance, or improved visual quality.
Arm is planning to add Neural Frame Rate Upscaling (NFRU), which allows for double frame rates without increasing load, and Neural Super Sampling and Denoising (NSSD), which improves the quality of real-time ray tracing. Developers will have access to these tools before the new hardware is released.
A few years ago, Arm introduced the Neural Graphics Development Kit, a developer kit with plugins for Unreal Engine, Vulkan emulation, open models, and profiling tools. It allows you to integrate new technologies into games even before the next generation of GPUs is released. At the start, Enduring Games, NetEase Games, Sumo Digital, and Tencent Games joined the project.