Last fall, Intel released its first series of video cards, called Alchemist. Along with it came the XeSS upscaling technology, which had a rather rough start, but after several updates it brought a surprise. Even at its worst, running through DP4a (but running on graphics from all manufacturers), it can outperform AMD FSR in image quality in quite a few games, as shown, for example, in the new Hardware Unboxed test. . DLSS is still the best, but only owners of Nvidia cards (namely RTX 20 and above) will use it.
However, upscaling is not the only technology that has gained mass adoption in recent years. Coinciding with the arrival of the RTX 40 cards, Nvidia introduced DLSS 3 Frame Generation, a new feature that, as the name suggests, can generate frames and in the best cases (i.e., where the CPU is the limit) can double the frame rate, but with higher latency. A few months ago, AMD came up with its answer, whose FSR 3 runs on cards from all three manufacturers. The technology has (and still faces) some problems, but its new implementation in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora appears to be a success.
Now it looks like Intel will also be joining the image generation game. He presented his new technology called ExtraSS, it was reported by Wccftech magazine. Unlike competitors that use frame interpolation, the new product must use extrapolation. Intel says that although the resulting image is not as good as interpolation, this technology provides much lower latency. Above you can see the concept of ExtraSS and the first sample results. Interestingly, Intel tested this technology on the RTX 3090 card, meaning that, as with the rival FSR 3, we can likely expect support from GPU manufacturers.
In any case, this is just a concept presentation, and we don’t yet know when ExtraSS will appear in the first games. Perhaps we can learn more at Intel’s presentation at the traditional CES event, which will take place in early January.
Source :Indian TV
