Tuesday, May 17th 2022
Intel XeSS Launches on May 20, with "Dolmen"
The ambitious performance enhancement by Intel Graphics rivaling NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR, the Intel XeSS (Xe Super Sampling,) will debut on May 20, 2022, with a patch for "Dolmen," developer Massive Work Studio announced. This matches our report from March 2022 that referenced an "early Summer" debut. This would mean Intel Graphics has a driver release planned very soon, for its Xe LP-based iGPUs and Iris Xe MAX discrete GPU; as well as the first round of Arc 3 "Alchemist" mobile graphics, which will launch with XeSS support.
Much like FSR and DLSS, XeSS works with a supported game to render raster 3D scenes at a lower resolution than the display resolution, and upscales them using a sophisticated algorithm that minimizes image quality loss, with a net gain in frame-rates. XeSS will play a particularly big role in Intel's plans to grab a slice of the gaming graphics market with its Arc "Alchemist" discrete GPUs. XeSS appears to work similar to AMD FSR 2.0, with its upscaler using motion-vectors and temporal data from the game engine to reconstruct details in the outbound frames. Also, much like FSR, XeSS will be open to GPUs from other brands.
Update May 17th: The Dolmen Twitter handle just put out an update that XeSS support is coming "this Summer," implying that it will not release on May 20 as earlier reported.
Much like FSR and DLSS, XeSS works with a supported game to render raster 3D scenes at a lower resolution than the display resolution, and upscales them using a sophisticated algorithm that minimizes image quality loss, with a net gain in frame-rates. XeSS will play a particularly big role in Intel's plans to grab a slice of the gaming graphics market with its Arc "Alchemist" discrete GPUs. XeSS appears to work similar to AMD FSR 2.0, with its upscaler using motion-vectors and temporal data from the game engine to reconstruct details in the outbound frames. Also, much like FSR, XeSS will be open to GPUs from other brands.
23 Comments on Intel XeSS Launches on May 20, with "Dolmen"
On another topic, I could see Intel just wantonly throwing money around to developers to "incentivize" quick adoption of XeSS. While in a just world, the best solution would win out (based on the net sum of all its parts, e.g. Image quality as well as ease of integration, performance loss/gain, applicability to the most expansive amount of differing hardware, etc), it would be naive of me to have such expectations, so I would predict in the long run that Intel and Nvidia, through a war of financial attrition, will pinch out AMD... Although AMD does way more per dollar than either, so it's not like they don't have a fighting chance.
XeSS just takes Nvidia out of the picture if it's able to deliver because it promises what Nvidia won't do - access to the entire market - while using a similar-ish technology based on deep learning.
Leak data > announce release date >> pretend there is an unknown delay > Leak performance data > Re-announce the leaked announced date > etc.
Oh , or not, kin el Intel.
I’m still waking up.