XeSS might be one of the hottest new upscaling technologies in gaming, but XeSS isn't the only upscaling solution Intel is developing. Phoronix reports that the silicon fab designer and CPU manufacturer is building a new adaptive sharpening filter for Linux aimed at its Lunar Lake processors featuring Xe2 integrated graphics.
The new sharpening filter is designed to enhance image quality with minimal impact on power and GPU performance. The tech uses hardware inside the Lunar Lake Xe2 Battlemage iGPU, the "pipe scaler," to execute the sharpening and upscaling work. The filter is described as having enhanced visual clarity that is superior to traditional sharpening techniques that only apply a uniform level of sharpness to the entire image — resulting in some areas that are oversharpened. Intel's filter is more intelligent by contrast, allowing sharpness to be adjusted more appropriately to the image's traits by only sharpening areas of the image that require sharpening.
