Intel® Core™ Ultra Processor

Datasheet, Volume 1 of 2
Supporting Intel® Core™ Ultra Processor for U/H-series Platforms, formerly known as Meteor Lake

ID Date Version Classification
792044 12/15/2023 Public

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Hardware Accelerated Video Encode

Xe implements a low-power low-latency fixed function encoder which supports AVC, HEVC, VP9 and AV1.

The HW encode is exposed by the graphics driver using the following APIs:

  • Direct3D12 Video API
  • Intel®one VPL
  • MFT (Media Foundation Transform) filters [Only for AVC/HEVC/JPEG/AV1 Encoder]

Xe supports full HW accelerated video encoding for AVC/HEVC/VP9/JPEG/AV1.

Hardware Accelerated Video Encode 

Codec

Profile

Level

Maximum Resolution

AVC/H264

High

Main

Constrained Baseline

L5.2

4K@60

JPEG

16Kx16K

HEVC/H265

Main10 422 - 8b/10b

L5.2 4K@60

Main

Main10 420, 444 - 8b/10b

SCC 420 444 - 8b/10b

L6.1

4320p(8K) @60

16Kx12K

VP9

0 (420 8b)

1 (444 8b)

2 (420 10b)

3 (444 10b)

8K @30

AV1

Main (4:2:0 8b, 10b)

L6

8K@30

Note:Hardware encode for H264 SVC is not supported.