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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Hassam Nasir

Intel will retire rarely-used 16x MSAA support on Xe3 GPUs — AI upscalers like XeSS, FSR, and DLSS provide better, more efficient results

Intel Arc Battlemage B580 and B570.

Intel has begun phasing out 16x MSAA support in its upcoming Xe3 graphics,. As revealed by engineer Kenneth Graunke in a recent Mesa driver commit, “16x MSAA isn’t supported at all on certain Xe3 variants, and on its way out on the rest. Most vendors choose not to support it, and many apps offer more modern multisampling and upscaling techniques these days. Only 2/4/8x are supported going forward.” The change has already landed in the Mesa 25.3-devel branch and is being back-ported to earlier 25.1 and 25.2 releases.

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