More feature-complete than AMD’s FSR and competitive with Nvidia DLSS.
Intel has just unleashed its second-gen gaming GPUs, codenamed Battlemage and kicking off with the Arc B580 and B570 graphics cards. We’re a little disappointed that they’re only aiming at Nvidia’s low-end RTX 4060 for now. But when it comes to features and tech, if anything Battlemage looks to have the edge on AMD. And that includes upscaling.
To complement the launch of Battlemage, Intel is also rolling out a new version of its upscaling tech, known as XeSS 2. The big news is the addition of frame generation, making it pretty much feature-competitive with Nvidia’s DLSS.
Arguably, Intel actually has the edge on AMD. That’s because Intel’s GPUs sport XMX cores which are AI accelerators analogous to Nvidia’s Tensor cores. That allows Intel to match Nvidia in having AI-accelerated upscaling, when AMD’s scalers are essentially hand-coded.
