Stefan Mileschin

Held its own against its betters

Intel’s upscaling tech, slated to be put under the bonnet of the Arc GPUs, is better than a poke in the eye with a short stick.

Digital Foundry compared Intel’s Xe Super Sampling, [XeSS] against to Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) and it seemed to do ok.

If it does not seem like we are bubbling with enthusiasm it is because we have not had our morning coffee yet and Digital Foundry only ran tests with Intel’s highest-end card, the Arc A770, using one game.

XeSS and similar technologies mean you run your game at a lower resolution, then use a bunch of machine learning algorithms to upscale it in a way that looks better.

It means you can use higher frame rates or turn on fancy effects like ray tracing without giving up a huge amount of performance because your GPU is rendering fewer pixels and then upscaling the resulting image, often using dedicated hardware.

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