Intel XeSS verrà lanciato a maggio 20, con “Dolmen”

The ambitious performance enhancement by Intel Graphics rivaling NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR, the Intel XeSS (Xe Super Campionamento,) 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 “Alchimista” 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 “Alchimista” GPU discrete. 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. Anche, much like FSR, XeSS will be open to GPUs from other brands.