Intel Confirms AVX10 For Nova Lake, Adds XeSS Frame Gen For Meteor Lake iGPUs

Intel's been making moves under the radar lately, and they're good news for Team Blue—not only do the most recent GitHub Intel Xess 2,1 SDK patch notes reveal that Frame Gen is coming to Core Ultra 100-series iGPUs, but the 60th Edition of Intel's ISA Extensions Reference confirms that AVX10.2 is, in fact, coming to Nova Lake, contrary to expectations. The confirmation of AVX10.2 for Nova Lake is a particularly huge deal, since documentation released last month suggested support for it was being dropped. Fortunately for Intel CPU users, the next-gen of Intel's desktop CPUs will in fact include the contentious instruction set extension, which is particularly good news in face of AMD Zen 6 already having confirmed AVX-512 support.

Besides confirming XeSS Frame Gen coming to Meteor Lake iGPU solutions, the GitHub patch notes also detail a series of fixes being ...