Intel XeSS demonstrated in Hitman 3 and The Riftbreaker – Graphics – News Leave a comment

Throughout the InnovatiON 2021 occasion, Intel shared the primary video footage of XeSS technology as utilized to presently obtainable 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. Sadly, all of the footage obtainable 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 well known 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 super-resolution applied sciences like Nvidia DLSS or AND FSR, so you will not see any such comparisons, for now. As a substitute, Intel checked out comparisons in imagery in instance footage corresponding to 1080p vs 4K XeSS, as under.

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Bear in mind, XeSS is viable on different GPU manufacturers, so an replace now would possibly 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 real-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 will be good to pixel peep at such comparisons. Within the occasion demo, although, we noticed Intel once more select to main or 1080p vs 4K XeSS powered graphics. You possibly can simply see some element enhancements if you happen to 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. Issues are thus wanting 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, however it is not sure whether or not this might be cell dGPUs or each the cell and desktop Xe-HPG based mostly merchandise.

Sources: Intel movies (linked above) VideoCardz, Tom’s Hardware.