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Back when Intel announced its Arch discrete GPUs in March, the company made a big fuss about being the first in the industry with full AV1 support. While this was certainly true at the time, Intel couldn’t make a big impact in the market as Arch was repeatedly delayed and since then both AMD and Nvidia have released GeForce RTX 40-series GPUs and Radeon RX 7000 series respectively. But have found their own solutions. .
On the integrated graphics side of things, Intel has now confirmed that its next 14th Gen Meteor Lake processors will feature AV1 encoding. The company has detailed the media capabilities of Meteor Lake (MTL) and it looks really strong:
| Codec | Kind of | MTL |
|---|---|---|
| AVC | Input | *More |
| Maximum race | 4k | |
| JPEG | Input/Output | **Note |
| Maximum race | 16k | |
| HEVC 8 bit | Input | NV12/YUY2/AYUV/RGB |
| Maximum race | 16 thousand *** | |
| HEVC 10 bit | Input | P010/Y210/Y410/RGB |
| Maximum race | 16 thousand *** | |
| VP9 8bit | Input | NV12/AYUV |
| Maximum race | 8k | |
| VP9 10bit | Input | P010/Y410 |
| Maximum race | 8k | |
| AV1 8 bit | Input | NV12 |
| Maximum race | 8k | |
| AV1 10 bit | Input | P010 |
| Maximum race | 8k |
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*More: KBL/CFL/ICL/TGL AVC encoding Supported input formats: NV12/YUY2/YUYV/YVYU/UYVY/AYUV/ARGB
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**Note: JPEG encoding supports input format NV12/YUY2/UYVY/ABGR/Y8 and output format YUV400/YUV420/YUV422H_2Y/YUV444/RGB24.
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***: 16k=16384×12288
The onboard Meteor Lake graphics are reportedly going to be based on the new “Xe LPG” architecture that will replace the Xe LP that was on previous-gen parts. If reports are to be believed, Intel is unlikely to release Meteor Leak before the second half of 2023 and most likely around Q4.
A powerful encoding engine could potentially mean a lot of success for Intel in the laptop market as the Xe LPG graphics will do the heavy lifting for video encoding while the paired GPU can focus on the gaming side.
However, Intel’s x86 rival AMD is also developing its own AV1 encoding features. Next generation Ryzen 7040 series Phoenix APUs. It will pack integrated graphics based on RDNA 3 and overall, RDNA 3 looks like this Massive improvements for AV1 encoding When compared to RDNA 2. And while Intel’s solution is likely to be better, AMD’s AV1 encoding capability may be better enough for most people.
Meanwhile, AMD is once again expected to dominate Intel in terms of shader performance as RDNA 3 APUs are said to be outpacing RDNA 2 in the current generation Ryzen 6000 series. It is rumored that the performance of Phoenix can compete with Nvidia RTX. 3060 which means this could be a big win for Team Red as the Blue guys are already well behind AMD’s current 6000 series APUs.
Source: Intel (GitHub) through Video cards
