The update for PlayStation 5 Pro made a lot of modern games worse. It seems that PSSR (the new upscaler) poorly works with denoisers and completely ignores temporal artifacts. Such artifacts are very common for Unreal Engine games, Lumen lighting and reflections fully rely on effects that can't be rendered at full scale.

The issue is noticeable in games on other engines too: for example, the new Call of Duty is equally noisy and it's made with Infinity Ward's IW9.0 Engine .

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Intel declaration said that in late September they delivered several BMG B580 — a second generation desktop graphics, apparently Battlemage B580.

The announcement is expected this December and sales can begin this year. Intel is aiming to compete mostly for the hearts of the low-budget users. Their rumored lineup outside of the flagship 580 is just a branch of cheap models, that will be available earlier than NVIDIA or AMD equivalents.

The original Intel Xe series was a rough start with a very nice improvement later. Cards have become cheap, stable, and best far beyond gaming: their AV1 video support and great acceleration in Blender made them worthy for certain professional users.

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