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Interfaces

Multi-format HW assisted decode/encode pipeline, and Mid-Level Cache (MLC) for

superior high definition playback, video quality, and improved 3D performance and

media.

The Display Engine handles delivering the pixels to the screen. GSA (Graphics in

System Agent) is the primary channel interface for display memory accesses and PCI-

like traffic in and out.

The display engine supports the latest display standards such as eDP* 1.4, DP* 1.2,

HDMI* 1.4, HW support for blend, scale, rotate, compress, high PPI support, and

advanced SRD2 display power management.

2.4.1 Operating Systems Support

Windows* 10 x64,OS X, Linux* OS, Chrome* OS.

Note: The processor supports only 64-bit operating systems.

2.4.2 API Support (Windows*)

• Direct3D* 2015, Direct3D 11.2, Direct3D 11.1, Direct3D 9, Direct3D 10, Direct2D

•OpenGL* 5.0

• OpenCL* 2.1, OpenCL 2.0, OpenCL 1.2

DirectX* extensions:

• PixelSync, InstantAccess, Conservative Rasterization, Render Target Reads,

Floating-point De-norms, Shared Virtual memory, Floating Point atomics, MSAA

sample-indexing, Fast Sampling (Coarse LOD), Quilted Textures, GPU Enqueue

Kernels, GPU Signals processing unit. Other enhancements include color

compression.

Gen 9 LP architecture delivers hardware acceleration of Direct X* 11 Render pipeline

comprising of the following stages: Vertex Fetch, Vertex Shader, Hull Shader,

Tesselation, Domain Shader, Geometry Shader, Rasterizer, Pixel Shader, Pixel Output.

2.4.3 Media Support (Intel

QuickSync & Clear Video

Technology HD)

Gen 9 LP implements multiple media video codecs in hardware as well as a rich set of

image processing algorithms.

Note: All supported media codecs operate on 8 bpc, YCbCr 4:2:0 video profiles.

2.4.3.1 Hardware Accelerated Video Decode

Gen 9 LP implements a high-performance and low-power HW acceleration for video

decoding operations for multiple video codecs.

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

• Direct3D* 9 Video API (DXVA2)

• Direct3D11 Video API

•Intel Media SDK