Intel Arc B-Series will support XeSS3 MFG next month
Just wait for new drivers.
Yesterday, Intel launched a new graphics driver for Arc-based GPUs. The release is a package of two drivers: 8362 for the Core Ultra 300 Panther Lake series, and the 8426 branch for everything else covered by the driver. This matters because the older driver comes with XeSS 3 MFG support, while the newer one does not.
Intel has already confirmed to media that XeSS Multi-Frame Generation will be brought to all Arc-based GPUs. This includes Alchemist, Meteor Lake, Lunar Lake, Arrow Lake, and the Battlemage series. In an email sent to Tom’s Guide, Intel confirmed that the latter will get XeSS 3 next month.
Intel has confirmed to Tom’s Guide via email that the Intel Arc B580 is officially getting XeSS 3 with Multi-Frame Generation (MFG) next month.
— Tom’s Guide
Intel XeSS 3 Multi Frame Gen support
- Panther Lake (Core Ultra 300) — now supported
- Arrow Lake (Core Ultra 200) — coming soon
- Lunar Lake (Core Ultra 200V) — coming soon
- Meteor Lake (Core Ultra 100) — coming soon
- Battlemage (Arc B-Series) — coming soon
- Alchemist (Arc A-Series) — coming soon
Multi-Frame Generation in XeSS 3 is Intel’s AI-powered frame generation feature that creates extra “in-between” frames to raise the displayed frame rate. Instead of generating one extra frame per rendered frame pair, Intel says XeSS 3 can insert up to three generated frames between two rendered frames. That is the core change over XeSS 2’s single-frame generation approach.
Source: Intel
This is an extension of Frame Generation, which only generated one frame. Meanwhile, NVIDIA has already announced it will soon introduce Dynamic Frame Generation , which will add up to 5 frames per 1 original frame.
Intel’s messaging on how this technology is being deployed could have been better. We had no clue it would not be included in the same drivers as the Panther Lake driver, since Intel did not mention this at all. Still, Intel delivered MFG before AMD, which has instead focused on releasing FSR Redstone. But it has been confusingly quiet about AMD FSR deployment since then.
Source: Tom’s Guide
