Intel's Xe Super Sampling might give Nvidia's DLSS a run for its money

At Intel Architecture Day 2021, we finally got to see Intel's denounce new Ark GPU computer architecture, also titled

Intel Alchemist

. We besides got the first peek of its impressive AI-accelerated super sampling technology, XeSS, in action first, offering players a unweathered way to boost gaming performance.

Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) is Intel's open-source answer to Nvidia's DLSS and AMD's FSR. One of the most significant differences is that XeSS will work with any GPU, non just Intel's future Alchemist video cards.

This very-time demo shows XeSS in action by interpretation at 1080p so upscaling it to 4K. Intel even makes side-by-broadside comparisons between native 4K and XeSS-powered 4K, and it looks pretty much identical.

The goal is to have gamers take games they unremarkably pass over on low settings and give them a boost in resolution and framerate regardless of whether they'ray using an AMD, Nvidia, operating theater Intel video card. It will exist interesting to see how this looks in practice when running a game at 1080p and upscaling it to 4K quite than just relying on a tech demo, but Intel has got to start somewhere I guess.

The destination with XeSS, accordant to Intel, is to give players both stinky framerates and high resoluteness without having to gain them prefer between the deuce, every bit you do with other upscaling techniques. Intel is making the bold exact that XeSS will boost performance by nearly double thanks to AI-assisted scaling. Information technology besides revealed that the XeSS SDK would Be available later this month for developers.

XeSS testament make up available when Intel's new Alchemist graphics cards are released in immature 2022.

Jorge is a hardware author from the enchanted lands of Spick-and-span Jersey. When he's non filling the office with the smell of Pop-Tarts, he's reviewing all sorts of gambling hardware from headsets to game pads. He's been covering games and technical school for nearly ten years and has scripted for Dualshockers, WCCFtech, and Tom's Guide.