General Gaming XeSS - Intel's DLSS compeditor, DF comparison video out

[crispy4000]

DF interivew, cued up to where discussion begins.  Written out:

 

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2021-the-big-intel-interview-how-intel-alchemist-gpus-and-xess-upscaling-will-change-the-market

 

 

[Mr.Vic20]

Really happy to see both X^e and X^eSS coming to the market! The more competition the faster this kind of feature set will become standard, regardless of flavor. 

[Dre801]

If it delivers, my next GPU might be Intel.

[imthesoldier]

21 hours ago, Dre801 said:

If it delivers, my next GPU might be Intel.

 

Right? It's now Team Blue vs. Team Red in the CPU + GPU realm.

 

EDIT: Think of it as another Red vs. Blue.

 

[crispy4000]

 

[crispy4000]

In summary, it's not as good as DLSS 2.32 overall (newer versions exist).  But other than some occasional flicker patterns and aliasing issues, it's quite close.

 

Anyone with an NVIDIA card will want to stick with DLSS.  But there's now a larger question of FSR 2.1 vs XeSS on AMD hardware (including consoles), both in quality and performance.  DF did say XeSS will look at its best on ARC cards, as tested.

[Xbob42]

1 hour ago, crispy4000 said:

In summary, it's not as good as DLSS 2.32 overall (newer versions exist).  But other than some occasional flicker patterns and aliasing issues, it's quite close.

 

Anyone with an NVIDIA card will want to stick with DLSS.  But there's now a larger question of FSR 2.1 vs XeSS on AMD hardware (including consoles), both in quality and performance.  DF did say XeSS will look at its best on ARC cards, as tested.

So were those rumors of Intel shutting down Arc true? Because the question becomes kind of relevant if these GPUs are on a clock. I feel like I've seen multiple claims that Intel is already shuttering it all after their C series or something.

[stepee]

4 minutes ago, Xbob42 said:

So were those rumors of Intel shutting down Arc true? Because the question becomes kind of relevant if these GPUs are on a clock. I feel like I've seen multiple claims that Intel is already shuttering it all after their C series or something.

 

At least the current rumor seems to be originating from moore’s law is dead, and there is a known AMD bias and history of things not being true there so who knows.

[Dre801]

A good first effort from Intel.   I genuinely don't want Intel to give up.  I'd like a third horse in the race for the long haul.

[crispy4000]

We Tested Intel's XeSS in Shadow of the Tomb Raider XeSS on Multiple GPUs | Tom's Hardware

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Benefits Pascal and later, RDNA 2 and Arc — most of the time

 

Death Stranding also got a XeSS patch today.

[stepee]

On 9/15/2022 at 4:36 PM, Dre801 said:

A good first effort from Intel.   I genuinely don't want Intel to give up.  I'd like a third horse in the race for the long haul.

 

Same, I hear rumors of them abandoning this project already and I don’t get why? It seems like they are on the right track. 

[crispy4000]

For those still slumming it with me:

 

 

On a 1060 at 1080p, XeSS' Performance mode runs just a little worse than FSR 2.0 Balanced.  Sounds like AMD is still the winner for older cards.

Nice to see a 1060 get to run the game at 60fps at 1440p-ish regardless.