Inside Intel Arc B390: Xe3, XeSS, and New Smoothness Metrics | Talking Tech | Intel Technology

Intel Fellow Tom “TAP” Petersen breaks down the massive performance leap in the new Intel Arc B390 GPU built into select Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors. His presentation covers how the Xe3 graphics architecture delivers a leap in performance that outperforms the competition and matches up well against discrete laptop GPUs like the RTX 4050. Petersen dives into XeSS 3, including multi-frame generation technology, and discusses new PresentMon metrics that go beyond FPS to measure real gaming smoothness, including a new “animation error” metric designed to capture stutter and timing issues more accurately.

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Chapters:
00:00 – Intro and Core Ultra Series 3 graphics recap
00:56 – 100 million PCs worth of computational units
01:30 – Performance summary
03:12 – XeSS 3 and how it works
04:36 – Smoothness and FPS
09:06 – Animation error a new way to measure performance, now in PresentMon

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