3D mark just released An update focused on benchmarking Intel’s new XeSS Ai upscaling technology on Intel, AMD, and Nvidia-based GPUs. The new update is now available for free to (almost) all owners of 3DMark Advanced and Professional Editions.
The benchmark tool is designed to allow users to analyze the functionality of XeSS using several tools and benchmarking options. This XeSS benchmark lets you see how fast your GPU is with XeSS and lets you test different resolution options for his XeSS including Ultra Quality, Quality, Balanced and Performance modes.
The benchmark itself is fully raytraced and features many shiny materials and objects for XeSS to upscale and manipulate. GPU-intensive benchmarks should provide users with enough detail to properly check the upscaling quality of XeSS, and the native resolution has very low frames per second (which , XeSS is most likely to increase the frame rate by upscaling (should). .
The XeSS Benchmark application also allows you to measure image quality using a tool called the XeSS Frame Inspector. This tool records a few frames of the application’s benchmark run for the user to see in still images. The user can then use the frame inspector to zoom in on any part of the image and judge the quality of the XeSS upscaling.
Intel hinted at this 3DMark update in an early demo video almost two months ago. But so far it hasn’t been available to everyone (assuming he’s running 3DMark on the paid version).
The XeSS benchmark is a free update for owners of 3DMark Advanced Edition and Professional versions, with some caveats. Users who purchased the Advanced Edition after January 8th, 2019 will get the update for free. However, users who purchased the Advanced Edition prior to this date will need to purchase the Port Royale upgrade to unlock the XeSS update.
For Professional Edition owners, XeSS benchmark updates are available to all users with a valid annual license for the program. Those who own older perpetual license versions will need to upgrade to an annual license to unlock XeSS updates.
Also, due to ray tracing requirements, running XeSS functional tests requires a modern GPU that supports Microsoft’s ray tracing tier 1.1, shader model 6.4, and version 20H2 of Windows 10 or 11.
