What is Xe Super Sampling (XeSS)? Intel's game enhancing tech explained
(Pocket-lint) — With Intel's Arc graphics cards coming to market, the company is working on various technologies to ensure you have the best gaming experience. One of those technologies is set to rival Nvidia's DLSS and AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution.
Known as Xe Super Sampling (or XeSS for short), this is an AI-accelerated super sampling tech that's designed to be open-source. This means it's not only going to work with Intel's GPUs but also with those from its rivals.
We're exploring more about what that means and how it'll improve your gaming experience.
Intel has already been showing off what Xe Super Sampling can do. XeSS is designed to take a game that's rendered at 1080p and upscale it to 4K. This means in theory that it offers the same benefits as Nvidia's Deep Learning Super Sampling. That benefit is that you can play games at lower resolutions (meaning higher FPS) but use the technology to output a higher resolution image to your gaming monitor.
Intel has shown a demo of this technology in action with side-by-side comparisons of gameplay footage rendered natively at 4K and the same footage upscaled by XeSS. You can barely tell the difference. And Intel claims that using XeSS, gamers will be able to get twice the performance, meaning more FPS while still enjoying a high-resolution image.
The end goal here is to give you the best of both worlds — high frame rates and high resolution too.
Intel has stated that XeSS is set to be open source and it will be open for game developers to use. Xe Super Sampling will also work with any graphics cards that support Shader Model 6.4+ and DP4a instructions. Naturally, it's likely that XeSS will perform best on Intel's own Arc graphics processors but it will work with
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