The technology to improve performance in games based on artificial intelligence says “Hello world” – and one of the first impressive examples we get of its capabilities comes precisely when used with a graphics card from a competing company
A new update has been released for the Shadow of the Tomb Raider game and it includes a very interesting section that allows it to use Intel’s XeSS technology to improve performance and sometimes image quality when using a system that supports Microsoft’s DirectX 12.
XeSS technology is Intel’s answer to technologies such as NVIDIA’s DLSS in which machine learning is used to improve performance in games, both in image quality and in the number of frames produced per second.
The biggest difference and something that Intel understands very well is that if you want a technology to become widespread, especially if you are an underdog in the world of graphics, you should let as many people as possible use this technology. Therefore, XeSS can be implemented in any game that decides to take the available tools and implement it.
Twitter user CapFrameX has already reported on the performance improvements seen using AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card in Tomb Raider. Just like with the artificial intelligence performance enhancement technologies we’ve seen so far, you can choose one of several options, depending on the quality of the image compared to the performance.
The highest quality is called Ultra Quality and it is usually an option whose goal is a minimal performance improvement in order to improve the quality of the image compared to the original. There, a 13 percent performance improvement was observed. Both image quality and performance? Why not.
When you switch to Quality mode and slightly reduce the image quality improvements, the performance jumps by a few percent. We hope to see XeSS become as widespread as possible so that everyone can enjoy improvements in game performance, especially when using cheaper and older graphics cards. After all, DirectX 12 supporting systems have been on the market for quite a few years.
Look out for XeSS content in the near future as we extensively cover Intel’s new graphics cards, which are expected to finally be available as early as October.