Intel moves on from 16x MSAA

Won’t be offered in future graphics architectures.

August 7, 2025

Jon Peddie

Intel discontinues 16x multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) support in upcoming Xe3 graphics hardware, following broader industry trends. The brute-force technique renders pixels from 16 sample points but creates substantial performance penalties while only addressing geometric edges, not shader-based artifacts. Modern AI-powered alternatives like Intel’s XeSS, AMD’s FSR, and Nvidia’s DLSS deliver superior visual quality with better performance through intelligent upscaling and temporal reconstruction. These technologies process entire frames and offer additional features like frame generation that traditional MSAA cannot provide. Intel is discontinuing support for 16x multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) in its upcoming Xe3 graphics hardware. That is based on a comment

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