On the other hand, Intel’s XeSS upscaling technology is designed by following a similar approach to NVIDIA’s DLSS. However, it’s important to note that XeSS has different versions: an Intel Arc exclusive version that takes advantage of the XMX cores on Arc GPUs, and a vendor-agnostic version that uses AI through DP4a instructions. The vendor-agnostic version of XeSS is behind DLSS in terms of image quality but still provides a viable alternative.