Intel Demos XeSS 2 With Frame Gen On Arrow Lake H And It's A Game-Changer

Let's talk about frame generation on integrated graphics for a moment. It's not an entirely novel concept; not only does AMD's FSR3 frame generation work on integrated graphics, but AMD has its driver-based AFMF 2 technology that has a dedicated mode for the integrated GPUs in its products.

With the launch of its Battlemage GPUs, Intel also debuted its second-generation XeSS technology. In case you haven't put it together, XeSS 2 also includes frame generation (FG) functionality. Unlike XeSS upscaling, though, it's not available to all graphics products. In fact, it's not even available to all Intel graphics products. XeSS FG specifically requires an Arc graphics product that includes Intel's matrix math accelerators, known as "XMX cores".

At CES 2025, we got the chance to check out a demo of XeSS FG in F1 24 running with "High" settings on a 16" MSI ...