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The Excitement Grows with X^eSS in Over 50 Games

Gamers don’t have to choose either high framerates or high resolutions. Get the best of both with Intel X^eSS, now in dozens of your favorite games.

Intel Arc graphics have dedicated AI hardware built-in. Leveraging those capabilities for gaming gets the most performance possible out of Arc GPUs, and that’s exactly what X^e Super Sampling does. Let’s look closer: when you turn on X^eSS, every frame the GPU renders starts at a lower size than your target resolution. That smaller image renders quickly, then X^eSS steps in. X^eSS uses a trained AI model combined with motion vectors and frame history to intelligently upscale frames to full HD, 1440p, or 4K. Got all that? The sausage-making can get pretty technical, but the important thing is turning X^eSS on scales games to high resolutions faster than traditional rendering could.

FPS numbers aren’t the only thing we’re increasing: over fifty games now include X^eSS, from the biggest franchises to your niche favorites. When we launched the Intel Arc A750 and A770, we showed how X^eSS works to boost FPS in nine popular games with over a dozen more on the way. Now with our high-performance desktop GPUs out for half a year, our game developer friends have helped deliver even more AI-fueled upscaling to over fifty new and existing games. A full list of every game and demo with X^eSS included is at the bottom of this article.

Ever-expanding Support

To put the power of X^eSS in the most gamers’ hands, Intel has been working with the world’s top game developers to enhance framerates in today’s biggest games. Whether you’ve been awaiting Diablo IV — out this week — or racking up wins in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II’s Warzone mode, the best way to gain more FPS is by turning on X^eSS. In the heat of battle, you’ll need every advantage you can get, especially faster framerates. But X^eSS isn’t just for getting the most competitive framerates for Warzone or co-oping with your fellow demon hunters in Diablo IV. It’s also a great way to enjoy the ultimate visual settings PC gaming have to offer.

You don’t need to break the bank to turn the most gorgeous worlds’ settings all the way up. Bask in the enhancements infused into The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with its next-gen updates: that’s Ultra settings, ray tracing, high-resolution textures, and the best community-made mods improving what was already one of the best RPGs of all time. Sound like too much for a budget-friendly GPU to handle? Not for the Intel Arc A750. At 1080p with X^eSS Performance on, turn up ray tracing to max and use Ultra settings and you’ll get 60 FPS.

The Hardest-hitting Games, Faster

A couple weeks ago, Ryan and TAP introduced several balanced builds and lots of testing with one goal: making high-performance gaming available even without a massive budget. To that end, they also shared a partial list of all the games with X^eSS built-in, meaning no matter what your gaming tastes are, you’ll find a game you love with X^eSS included.

Let’s revisit some Intel Arc A750 performance numbers shared with Game On drivers for some of today’s most stunning games.

With these demanding games’ framerates accelerated to over 60 FPS and well beyond, it’s easy to see the benefit of enabling Intel X^e Super Sampling. Of course, lots of those framerates above might be fast enough for you without X^eSS on — as we’ve said before, the Intel Arc A750 is built for modern games and tackling them at 1440p High settings. X^eSS does a lot more than boost already-high framerates; it also brings ray tracing at over 60 FPS to the budget-friendly Intel Arc A380.

Gamers looking to get into some of today’s most stunning games don’t need to break the bank to enter into the world of ray tracing. We tested an Intel Arc A380 — the most affordable discrete Arc GPU at $139 — paired to a cost-effective Core i5-13400F. Kinda sounds like another balanced build, doesn’t it?

Here we have a selection of games which hit that sweet 60 FPS mark at 1080p High settings with ray tracing enabled on the Intel Arc A380. With the power of X^eSS applied, some games rocket to over double the framerates they started with!

Intel’s AI-powered upscaling lets you enjoy games with all the eye candy turned on, and games which started with playable framerates push into high refresh rate territory. All this adds even more to the best value in graphics with Intel Arc GPUs.

Zachary Hill

June 9, 2023

Every Title with X^eSS Today

3DMark	ANVIL	Arcadegeddon
Blacktail	Boundary	Bright Memory: Infinite
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2	Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0	Chivalry 2
Chorus	Conqueror's Blade	Crime Boss
Cyberpunk 2077	Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle Demo	Deadlink
Death Stranding Director's Cut	Deceive Inc.	DESORDRE Demo
Diablo IV	The Diofield Chronicle	Dolmen
Dying Light 2 Stay Human	Dysterra	Enlisted
Farming Simulator 22	Forspoken	Forza Horizon 5
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed	Ghostwire: Tokyo	Gotham Knights
GravityMark Upscaler Tech Demo	GRID Legends	Hi-Fi RUSH
High on Life	Hitman 3	Hogwarts Legacy
Judgment	Like a Dragon: Ishin!	Lost Judgment
Martha is Dead	Marvel's Avengers	Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales	Moonlight Blade	Myth of Empires
Ni Shui Han: Justice	Night of the Dead	Pinball FX
Polars	Propnight	Redfall
Redout 2	Returnal	The Riftbreaker
Scathe	Shadow of the Tomb Raider	Starship Troopers: Extermination
Super People 2	The Swordsman X: Survival	Tactical Vengeance: Play The Games
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt	Warhammer 40,000: Darktide	The Witcher 3 HD + RT
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

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