During the InnovatiON 2021 occasion, Intel shared the primary video footage of XeSS know-how as utilized to at the moment out there gaming titles. Hitman 3 (launched Jan 2021) was proven off throughout a section hosted by Roger Chandler, and The Riftbreaker (launched earlier this month) by Lisa Pearce. Unfortunately, all of the footage out there from the occasion is a max 1080p60, so it is not optimum for pixel peeping. Intel will add 4K footage at a later date.
Hitman 3 is a nicely-identified AAA title, so it’s a good sport for Intel to demo with so early earlier than its graphics playing cards and supporting tech like XeSS arrive. The underlying Glacier engine does not assist rival tremendous-decision applied sciences like Nvidia DLSS or AND FSR, so you will not see any such comparisons, for now. Instead, Intel checked out comparisons in imagery in instance footage equivalent to 1080p vs 4K XeSS, as under.
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Remember, XeSS is viable on different GPU manufacturers, so an replace now may profit AMD and Nvidia customers, however Intel has no purpose to get IOI to implement XeSS as but. The Glacier Engine is meant to get actual-time raytracing applied in some unspecified time in the future, too.
The Riftbreaker by Exor Studios already has AMD’s FSR settings in its graphics choices. It turns into the primary sport we all know of with each FST and XeSS, so it might be good to pixel peep at such comparisons. In the occasion demo, although, we noticed Intel once more select to main or 1080p vs 4K XeSS powered graphics. You can simply see some element enhancements in case you look carefully on the magnified stills.
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Intel introduced its XeSS DevMesh program for builders, permitting early entry to check its supersampling know-how. Things are thus trying fairly good for some XeSS enhanced video games being prepared for the launch of the primary Arc Alchemist / DG2 GPUs. Intel confirmed that the primary Arc Alchemist graphics merchandise are coming in Q1 2022, but it surely is not sure whether or not this will likely be cell dGPUs or each the cell and desktop Xe-HPG primarily based merchandise.
Sources: Intel movies (linked above) VideoCardz, Tom’s Hardware.