Intel Xe Super Sampling 2 (XeSS 2) is a groundbreaking solution in the gaming world, combining three key technologies – XeSS-SR, XeSS-FG, and XeLL – to maximize frames per second (FPS), accelerating game performance while maintaining top-tier image quality and minimal latency. XeSS-SR leverages AI upscaling to deliver sharp details even at lower rendering resolutions, while XeSS-FG introduces smooth frame generation, enhancing animation fluidity without sacrificing quality. The key complement is Intel Xe Low Latency (XeLL), which intelligently reduces input lag, ensuring responsive gameplay on Intel Arc A-series and B-series graphics cards, as well as Arc 100V and 100T integrated graphics in Intel Core Ultra processors.

The newest game to support XeSS 2 (including frame generation) is Cyberpunk 2077. To use Intel XeSS in version 2, you’ll need to update the game to version 2.3.

Key Components of Intel XeSS 2

XeSS-SR is also available for earlier generations of integrated GPUs and for hardware from other manufacturers that support Shader Model 6.4 (DP4A).

Comparison with Competitors

Similar technologies from competitors are known as NVIDIA DLSS 4 (for GeForce cards) and AMD FSR 4 (for Radeon cards). The quality of advanced upscaling and frame generation implementations largely depends on the specific game, though DLSS is often cited as the leader.

Key Facts About Intel XeSS 2

According to official Intel sources, XeSS 2 can boost game performance by 2-4 times compared to native rendering, which is especially noticeable in high-resolution games. For instance, tests in Diablo IV showed over a 4x FPS increase with XeSS-FG enabled. XeSS 2 consists of three core components:

Intel XeSS Super Resolution (XeSS-SR)

XeSS-SR is a frame-rate-boosting technology supported by Intel Arc GPUs and graphics cards from other brands. Using deep learning-based AI upscaling, XeSS-SR delivers higher FPS while preserving high image quality.

Intel XeSS Frame Generation (XeSS-FG)

XeSS-FG is an AI-based frame generation technology for games, exclusively supported by Intel Arc GPUs. It generates detailed, high-resolution frames through deep learning, improving game smoothness and performance without degrading image quality. XeSS-FG uses XeLL for frame synchronization support, which is crucial for a seamless player experience.

Intel Xe Low Latency (XeLL)

Equivalent to NVIDIA Reflex and AMD Anti-Lag, XeLL receives timing data for each frame, allowing it to calculate the CPU delay the application should introduce before starting work on the next frame. As a result, the time to display the frame on screen is minimized, reducing input latency. This additional, precisely calculated delay is tuned to reduce access time without impacting application performance.

Intel XeSS 3 with Multi Frame Generation (MFG)

Intel has unveiled the next evolution of its upscaling technology – XeSS 3, powered by a cutting-edge Multi Frame Generation engine designed to push frame rates to the next level. Crucially, XeSS 3 will work seamlessly across all titles that already support XeSS 2 and on any Intel GPU equipped with XMX cores, ensuring a broad rollout right out of the gate.

The company recently showcased XeSS 3 in action on upcoming Panther Lake chips, with live demos in Dying Light: The Beast and Painkiller. The official launch is expected to coincide with the debut of Intel’s Panther Lake processors, signaling the next major step in Intel’s graphics innovation pipeline.

List of games supporting XeSS 2 (XeSS 3 in the future)

• Achilles: Survival
• Anarchy Legends Online
• Assassins Creed Shadows
• Battlefield 6
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Blade & Soul Heroes
• Borderlands 4
• Chernobylite 2
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Cronos: The New Dawn
• Cyberpunk 2077 (update v2.3 required)
• Dead Take
• Delta Force: Black Hawk Down
• Diablo IV
• Dune: Awakening
• Dying Light: The Beast
• Empyreal
• Eternal Strands
• F1 24
• F1 25
• FPlus
• Game of Thrones: Kingsroad
• Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Japanese Drift Master

• Karma: The Dark World
• Killing Floor 3
• Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
• Marvel Rivals
• Mechwarrior 5: Clans
• Medieval Dynasty
• MindsEye
• Naraka Bladepoint
• Payday 3
• Rise of the Ronin
• Robocop: Rogue City
• Robocop: Rogue City Unfinished Business
• Sid Meier’s Civilization VII

• SKYGUARD
• Star Wars: Outlaws
• Steel Seed
• Still Wakes the Deep
• Striden
• TankHead
• The Talos Principle: Reawakened
• Voin
• War Thunder
• Wild Assault
• Wreckfest 2

List of games supporting XeSS 1

The first version of Intel XeSS is less advanced and does not support frame generation, but it has been implemented in a significantly larger number of games.

• 22 Racing Series
• 63 days
• Absence of Light
• Achilles: Survival
• AEW: Fight Forever
• Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator
• Anarchy Legends Online
• ANVIL
• Arcadegeddon
• Archeage War
• Architect Life: A House Design Simulator
• Assassin’s Creed Mirage
• Assassins Creed Shadows
• Astral Tracks
• Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land
• Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
• Backrooms: Extractions
• Bellwright
• Beyond Hanwell
• Black Hawk Down
• Black Myth: Wukong
• BLACKTAIL
• Blades of Fire
• Boundary
• Bright Memory: Infinite
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare II
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
• Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0
• Captain Gazman: Day of the Rage
• Cargo Shop Simulator
• Cash Cleaner Simulator
• Chernobylite
• Chernobylite 2
• Chivalry 2
• Chorus
• City 20
• City of Springs
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Coin Pusher Casino
• Conqueror’s Blade
• Crime Boss: Rockay City
• Crime Simulator
• CRSED
• Cursed Digicam
• Cyberless: Online
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Dark and Darker
• Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle
• Dead by Daylight
• Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster
• Dead Take
• Deadlink
• Death Relives
• DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR’S CUT
• Deceive Inc.
• Deedlee Doo! Carkour!
• Delta Force: Hawk Ops
• DESORDRE
• Diablo IV
• Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed
• Dolmen

• Doom: The Dark Ages
• Draconia
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard
• Dragonkin: The Banished
• Dune: Awakening
• Dungeon Done
• Dungeonborne
• Dying Light 2
• Dynasty Warriors: Origins
• Dysterra
• Empyreal
• Enlisted
• Enotria: The Last Song
• Ertugrul of Ulukayin
• Eternal Strands
• EVE Frontier
• Eve Online
• Everspace 2
• F1 24
• F1 25
• F1 23
• Fairy Tail 2
• Farming Simulator 22
• Farming Simulator 25
• Fight or Flight
• Final Fantasy XVI
• Finnish Cottage Simulator
• First Dwarf
• Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn
• Forever Skies
• Forgive Me Father 2
• Forgotten Skies
• Forspoken
• Fortnite
• Forza Horizon 5
• Fragpunk
• Frostpunk 2
• Funko Fusion
• G.O.P.O.T.A 2
• Game of Thrones Kingsroad
• Ghost of Tsushima
• Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Ecto Edition
• Ghostrunner 2

• Ghostwire: Tokyo
• Ghostwire: Tokyo Spider Thread
• GOALS
• Goat Simulator: Remastered
• God of War Ragnarok
• Gord
• Gori: Cuddly Carnage
• Gotham Knights
• GravityMark
• Gray Zone Warfare
• GRID Legends
• HAINYA WORLD
• Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions
• HASTE: Broken Worlds
• Haunted Service
• Hi-Fi RUSH
• High On Life
• HITMAN 3
• Hogwarts Legacy

• Homeworld 3
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered
• Indiana Jones and The Great Circle
• inZOI
• Jagged Alliance 3
• Japanese Drift Master
• Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel
• Judgment
• KARMA: The Dark World
• KIBORG
• Killing Floor 3
• Layers of Fear
• Legend of YMIR
• Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
• Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth
• Like a Dragon: Ishin!
• Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
• Lords of the Fallen
• Lost Judgment
• Mandragora
• Manor Lords
• Market Garden
• Martha Is Dead
• Marvel Rivals
• Marvel’s Avengers – The Definitive Edition
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
• Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
• Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
• Mecha Break
• Mechwarrior 5: Clans
• Medieval Dynasty
• Memoriapolis
• MindsEye
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• Moon Mystery
• Moonlight Blade
• Mortal Kombat 1
• Mr. Photographer – Into The Light
• Myth of Empires
• NARAKA: BLADEPOINT
• NaturesAscendancy
• NBA 2K25
• Need for Speed: Unbound
• Ni Shui Han: Justice
• Night of the Dead
• Nightingale
• NightSpawn
• Niktophobia
• Ninja Gaiden 2 Black
• No Man’s Sky
• No more Room in Hell 2
• No Return
• Nobody Wants to Die
• Once Human
• One Box One Goal
• Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny
• Outpost: Infinity Siege
• Overwatch 2
• Path of Exile 2
• Path of Titans
• Payday 3
• Pinball FX
• Pinball M
• Preserve
• Primeval
• Project Borealis: Prologue
• Propnight
• Quadrober Simulator
• RaceHub
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Redfall
• Redout 2

• Remnant II
• Renovation Simulator
• Returnal
• Revenge of the Savage Planet
• RF Online Next
• Rise of the Ronin
• Riven
• RoboCop: Rogue City
• Robocop: Rogue City Unfinished Business
• Russian Soul Simulator
• Russian Village Simulator
• Russian Village Simulator 2
• Russian Village Simulator on Mars
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2
• Salvation Hours
• Sanguivore: Twenty Below
• Satisfactory
• Scathe
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider
• Ship Graveyard Simulator 2
• Ships at Sea
• Sid Meier’s Civilization VII
• Silent Hill 2
• Skoof Simulator
• Skull & Bones
• Skye: The Misty Isle
• SKYGUARD
• Speedy 500
• Spirit Realm
• Sports: Renovations
• SpyFall
• Squad
• Star Wars Outlaws
• Starfield
• Starship Troopers: Extermination
• Steel Seed
• Still Wakes the Deep
• Stone Simulator – Just Be a Rock
• Stranded: Alien Dawn
• Striden
• Strinova
• SUPER PEOPLE 2
• Survival Machine
• SYNCED
• Tactical Vengeance: Play The Games
• Tales of Kenzera: ZAU
• Tank Squad
• TankHead
• Tchia
• Tekken 8
• Tempest Rising
• Thaumaturge
• The Alters
• The Awakener: Forgotten Oath
• The Axis Unseen
• The Casting of Frank Stone
• The DioField Chronicle
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
• THE FINALS
• The First Berserker: Khazan
• The First Descendant
• The Front
• The Last of Us Part 2
• The Legend of Heroes: Kai no Kiseki -Farewell, O Zemuria-
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II
• The Riftbreaker
• The Swordsmen X: Survival
• The Talos Principle 2
• The Talos Principle Reawakened
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Throne and Liberty
• Trench Tales
• Ukrainian Shield: Iraq
• Unnatural: Benighted
• Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt
• Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O.
• Voin
• War Thunder
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
• Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks
• Warhaven
• Where Winds Meet
• Wild Assault
• Wild West Blast
• Witchfire
• Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
• Wreckfest 2
• Wuthering Waves
• Ys X: Nordics
• 平寇志 The Last Soldier of the Ming Dynasty
• 武林志2（Wushu Chronicles 2)

FAQ

How to activate XeSS 2 in games

1. Update your Intel GPU drivers: Ensure you have the latest Intel GPU drivers installed to support XeSS 2 features.
2. Enable XeSS in game settings: In the game’s graphics or display settings, look for options labeled “XeSS” or “Upscaling.” Activate the relevant modules (XeSS-SR for super resolution, XeSS-FG for frame generation, or XeLL for low latency).
3. For Cyberpunk 2077: Confirm your game is updated to patch 2.3 or later. XeSS 2 can be enabled directly in the graphics menu.

For optimal performance, test XeSS 2 at various resolutions. A minimum of 1080p (1920×1080) or higher is recommended to achieve the best visual and performance results.

Does XeSS 2 work only on Intel Arc graphics cards?

Intel recently released the XeSS 2.1 development kit, enabling this technology to run on graphics cards from other manufacturers, including AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce. This compatibility extends beyond super resolution (XeSS-SR) to include frame generation (XeSS-FG) and low-latency optimization (XeLL). The feature is available for owners of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1000 series (or newer) and AMD Radeon RX 5000 series (or newer) GPUs. The development kit is accessible on GitHub, empowering developers to integrate XeSS 2 across a broader range of hardware.

Source: Intel Gaming

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