- Intel has announced the improvement of XeSS 3 and the XeSS Multi-Frame generation
- Your version of MFG will work with older GPUs, even with Xe1 integrated graphics
- This is a big advantage over Nvidia’s MFG, and with Panther Lake chips expected in 2026, there are interesting possibilities on the horizon.
Intel has finalized its next-generation XeSS technology to boost frame rates with its Arc (and Xe) GPUs, and Team Blue is following in Nvidia’s footsteps with its own version of Multi-Frame Generation (MFG).
VideoCardz reports that Intel announced the extension of XeSS 3 and XeSS-MFG, which facilitates multi-frame interpolation, meaning the feature inserts multiple AI-generated frames between (real) frames rendered by the GPU.
Of course, this artificially increases the frame rate, and XeSS-MFG will offer up to 4x frame generation (i.e. three AI frames for every real one, for a quadruple frame rate).
The welcome twist with Intel’s MFG technology is that it will be backward compatible with older Arc GPUs, meaning first-generation Arc Alchemist desktop graphics cards and Xe2 (and eventually Xe1) integrated GPUs as well.
A release date for the XeSS 3 plus MFG was not revealed, but it is expected to debut next year.
Analysis: make the panther run faster
To be more precise, XeSS 3 with MFG is expected to be part of Intel’s big plan to enliven mobile CPUs alongside Panther Lake. Those Intel Core Ultra 3 series processors for laptops (and handheld devices) will have “wide market availability starting in January 2026,” Intel also told us in a press release.
Therefore, Panther Lake with integrated Xe3 graphics is already expected to “set a new standard” and provide more than 50% faster graphics performance compared to
In short, next year we could see some very attractive and affordable gaming laptops that feature Intel chips with very powerful integrated GPUs (not to mention also fast, thin and light gaming laptops and lively handhelds).
Intel also claims a notable achievement in being the first GPU manufacturer to allow previous generations of its graphics cards to use MFG: Nvidia is the only company to offer MFG at the moment, but the feature remains exclusive to its most recent RTX 5000 GPUs.
AMD has frame generation, but has not yet entered the multi-frame generation race, although it is expected to do so with its next-generation version of FSR codenamed ‘Redstone’.
