CD Projekt RED Advertises Intel XeSS Supersampling for Cyberpunk 2077

The developer of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt RED, has announced that they will be including various super sampling technologies in the game, including NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR, and now Intel XeSS supersampling. The inclusion of XeSS version 1.1 means that Intel's Arc Alchemist graphics cards will see a significant performance boost.

Thanks to the Intel game blog, we can compare XeSS enabled versus XeSS disabled, measuring the ability to play Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p Ultra settings with medium ray tracing enabled. The FPS comparison was conducted with Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition GPU, which was paired with Intel Core i9-13900K and 32 GB of RAM.

With XeSS off, the A750 GPU struggled and only reached 39 FPS. However, with XeSS set to performance, the number jumped to 67 FPS, resulting in a smooth user experience and gameplay. This is a 71% performance increase, enabled by a new update in the game.

Interestingly, Intel XeSS is computed on Arc's XMX Units, while NVIDIA and AMD compute their super sampling on shader units.