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Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: AI-Native Graphics for Mobile

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Demands from mobile users continue to grow. They want richer visuals, smoother frame rates, and increasingly immersive experiences. For developers the challenge is complex, as they aim to meet these expectations while staying within the strict power, thermal, and bandwidth limits of mobile devices.

Traditional rendering can deliver high image quality, but reaching desktop-class visual fidelity within mobile constraints demands greater efficiency. Neural graphics offers another path, using AI to reconstruct detail, generate intermediate frames, and refine images while reducing GPU demands and overall system workload. With more than 14 billion Mali GPUs shipped to date, Arm has the scale and experience to make these capabilities accessible across the next generation of mobile devices.

The Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU integrates neural acceleration directly into the graphics pipeline, helping developers deliver richer, more responsive visual experiences within the mobile power envelope. It combines dedicated neural acceleration, a new execution engine and third-generation ray tracing to enable AI-native graphics on mobile. Three neural technologies — Neural Super Sampling (NSS), Neural Frame Rate Upscaling (NFRU), and Neural Super Sampling and Denoising (NSSD) — demonstrate what this enables.

Neural Dawn, developed by Arm and Sumo Digital, showcases how developers can integrate NFRU and NSSD into a production game pipeline, delivering up to 4x higher performance efficiency and up to 70 percent lower external memory traffic compared with native rendering. A new execution engine increases the graphics budget alongside neural acceleration, providing up to 2x more registers per wrap to handle complex scenes more efficiently.