Less than a year after its launch, XeSS technology, Intel’s equivalent of NVIDIA’s DLSS or AMD’s FSR, now has a new, more efficient version 1.2. A new step on the road to competitiveness…despite promises of openness that have not yet been kept.
Intel is building on its XeSS super sampling technology (launched last year) with the deployment of a new version 1.2, but also of an SDK (development kit) designed to take advantage of it, and a libxess file. dll updated, reports VideoCardz.
A new pristine version of any game (for now)
The specialist site points out that the XeSS 1.2 is backwards compatible with versions 1.0 and 1.1, which means, at least in theory, that replacing DLL files may still work for certain games. However, Intel has not officially confirmed this at this stage.
The release notes for this new version of the XeSS report otherwise improved dynamic scaling technology, better performance and improved stability.
Note however that this version 1.2.0.13 has not yet been implemented in any game, but that version 1.2.0.10 has for its part been supported by Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. The XeSS 1.2 comes anyway after a very important version 1.1 for Intel. It brought with it faster XMX and DP4a cores, as well as new upscaling models.
Is Intel still betting on open source?
Like AMD’s FSR, XeSS technology has the advantage of being able to be used just as well with Intel GPUs as with those of AMD and NVIDIA, which makes it already more open than the famous DLSS from giant to chameleon.
Unfortunately, and unlike the FSR this time, the XeSS is still developed in closed source today. On Twitter, Intel had however specified in 2021 that the objective was to make its super sampling technology open source… enough to confront us with great doubts as to the reality of this desire for openness.
Source : VideoCardz
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