Intel Meteor Lake with XeSS Speed Up Dying Light 2!

A new demonstration of Intel’s Meteor Lake central processing units (CPUs) with Arc-integrated graphics running Dying Light 2 while making use of XeSS technology has been shown off by the company.

Intel XeSS Brings Huge Performance Improvements to Arc iGPUs, Which Will Be Featured on Upcoming Meteor Lake CPUs

The demonstration, which took place as part of Intel’s Tech Tour Malaysia, used a first-generation Core Ultra processor from Intel’s Meteor Lake family running the game Dying Light 2. In the demonstration, Intel used two identical systems that both ran at the same thermal design power (TDP), which was somewhere between 28 and 30 watts. Dying Light 2 is a triple-A game with some fairly good visuals. The benchmark was selected with the express purpose of demonstrating the graphics capabilities of Intel’s soon-to-be-released Arc Alchemist integrated graphics architecture, which is included within the Meteor Lake GPU tile.

The Intel Meteor Lake system on the left was running Dying Light 2 at a native resolution of 1080p, whilst the system on the right was running the XeSS Quality setting, which utilizes an internal resolution of 720p and upscales it to 1080p (with a scaling ratio of 1.5). Since Intel Arc has never been made available in anything except a discrete form factor before, this is the very first time that we have witnessed integrated versions of the company’s graphics processing units in operation.

Intel Meteor Lake with XeSS Speed

Alchemist architecture for Meteor Lake CPUs offers support for a variety of capabilities, including ray tracing and XeSS, just like the Arc discrete family does. This support is included in the architecture. The XeSS technology is a major and crucial component for integrated graphics since it may give significant performance gains and can help push over 60 frames per second in 1080p gaming scenarios with a suitable mix of settings. These benefits make it an important and necessary component.

This demo demonstrates just that, showing how the Intel Meteor Lake Arc integrated graphics can give up to a 2x gain in frames per second while using the same amount of energy. This is a XeSS Quality preset, so we may anticipate even greater performance utilizing the Balanced and Performance modes. The boost can occasionally fall to between 20 and 30 percent, but for the majority of the demo, it stays over 50 percent, which is a good trend.

The Phoenix APU is among the most potent processors available in terms of integrated graphics capability when compared to other CPUs. This is due to the fact that AMD’s RDNA 3 GPUs include support for FSR, which helps generate significant performance gains over the native resolution.

This will also play an important part in upcoming portable tablets and consoles, both of which will witness a significant increase in the use of CPUs based on the Meteor Lake architecture. At the moment, AMD is the uncontested monarch of this area; however, it was recently observed that some manufacturers have started embracing Intel’s Meteor Lake chips for their forthcoming handhelds. This might become a legitimate alternative and one that heats up the handheld industry.

Meteor Lake is Intel’s newest architecture, and it is intended to help the company maintain its leadership position while also competing with AMD APUs and NVIDIA’s entry-level discrete GPUs. Although Intel did not disclose the actual performance metrics, it is likely that we will become aware of them in the following months as we approach closer to the debut of Meteor Lake on December 14th.

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