Graphics cards from Intel have not finished arriving and, moreover, they lack optimal drivers, which should already be available. But, the company still seems to be working on improving its image upscaling technology. Apparently, on May 20, the company will release the Dolmen patch for your Intel XeSS Technology.
You may have doubts about how Intel XeSS works and also AMD FSR 2.0 and NVIDIA DLSS 2.0. These are all image resizing technologies. What is done is that the graphics card processes the image at a lower resolution than the final one that will be displayed on the screen. This image is scaled to monitor resolution. These three technologies do not work in the same way, but the goal is the same, to increase the amount of FPS.
Intel XeSS Dolmen will be released on May 20
The Dolmen patch within Intel XeSS was announced by developer Massive Work Studio. Already in March it was rumored that the said party would arrive at the “early summer”.
With the arrival of this patch, an update of drivers for Intel Graphics. These drivers should arrive for Xe LP integrated graphics cards and Iris Xe MAX discrete graphics cards. These controllers should also arrive for the bow 3 graphics “Alchemist” which integrates native XeSS support.
Intel XeSS technology seeks to deliver the best performance with Time ray tracing, the ray-tracing technology developed by the company. All this respecting all the specifications of DirectX 12 Ultimate.
Note that Intel XeSS should be available when the latest versions are released. Arc 5 and Arc 7 cards for laptops. The Ghostwire games: Tokyo, Death Standing, Anvil and Hitman III will be the first games to use this new technology.
Therefore, this patch should coincide with the release of new laptops with Intel graphics. The problem is that there are practically no laptops with Arc 3, moreover, as far as we know, they are only sold in South Korea. In addition, there are no specific drivers for these graphics cards, generating certain problems, such as not being able to validate the benchmarks in the 3DMark software.
A new solution to improve gaming performance
This technology is based on deep learning using AI. It is intended to provide a high quality output image when rendered at a lower resolution than will ultimately appear on screen.
Intel XeSS takes advantage of the XMX hardware embedded in the silicon itself, which speeds up the training of deep learning neural networks. Within the Xe HPG architecture, each Xe core has a dedicated XMX unit for XeSS. Just to be clear, XMXs are very similar to the NVIDIA graphics Tensor cores used for DLSS.
The company describes this technology as a solution that takes advantage of motion vectors as well as delays. Only the 3D scene pauses for XeSS AI accelerated scaling, while the HUD and post effects are rendered at native resolution.
