With the multi-tile designs of its client CPUs, Intel can improve its built-in graphics cores and bring their capabilities and performance closer to those of standalone GPUs. Starting from Arrow Lake processors due next year, its new built-in Xe-LPG Plus GPUs will gain eXtended Matrix Extensions (XMX) support, a technology for advanced XeSS upscaling features as well as for acceleration of artificial intelligence workloads, reports Coelacanth Dream.
Intel is set to start rolling out its Xe-LPG GPU microarchitecture, starting with Meteor Lake processors. Xe-LPG represents the company's 2nd Generation low-power Xe architecture that is further enhanced for gaming and is therefore closer to the Xe-HPG microarchitecture used for discrete GPUs. But as it turns out, even the Xe-LPG does not support XeSS. This is not going to substantially hurt the product as XeSS can work without XMX, and Meteor Lake has a built-in AI accelerator, which Intel aggressively promotes among independent software vendors (IHVs) anyway.
