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Intel confirms that Meteor Lake will be able to render AV1 in hardware

Meteor Lakewhich is supposed to be the future generation of computer processors. Intel, is generating contradictory information about it. On the one hand, there are the strong rumors about the cancellation of the lines aimed at the desktop, but on the other, news is appearing that suggests that as a technology it will mean a significant qualitative leap, regarding the capabilities of the integrated graphics accelerator.

If last summer we reported that Intel Meteor Lake integrated graphics (iGPU) will accelerate ray tracing, now we echo that the company has introduced AV1 hardware rendering support for that generation of processors. This has become known through the Intel Media Driver, the chip giant’s multimedia driver for VA-API, the main hardware acceleration framework used in Linux.

Being more specific, Intel has already confirmed that Mater Lake and Arc Alchemist graphics will be able to reproduce and render AV1 by hardware, that is, using the graphics instead of the processor. AV1 is a free video format royalties which aims to establish itself as the new standard compared to H.264/x264, with the advantage of being 50% more efficient (it offers the same quality while taking up less disk space).

SVT-AV1 renderer working with renderer in OBS Studio 28.1

SVT-AV1 renderer working with renderer in OBS Studio 28.1.

Intel is one of the most interested parties in promoting AV1, in fact, it has developed a renderer together with Netflix, SVT-AV1, which aims to succeed a libaom-av1 that for many is too much to use on a processor. SVT-AV1 is already available in OBS Studio’s advanced video output settings, although its implementation in free video editors like Kdenlive and Shotcut is still pending and DaVinci Resolve supports it via NVENC (NVIDIA).

The integrated graphics of Intel Meteor Lake processors may represent a huge quantum leap, but it will be necessary to see if that ends up reaching end users at least in 2023, since in recent days a rumor has spread that the desktop line could be canceled and that the company would choose to refresh Raptor Lake by 2023.

The reasons for the cancellation of Meteor Lake for desktop could have their answer in the competition. AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors have crashed in sales due to the requirement to change the motherboard, the prices of the motherboards themselves, and being only compatible with DDR5 memory. On the other hand, it is known that hardware sales are collapsing due to the context of multiple crises in which we are immersed and, why not say it, at prices that little by little are turning the PC into a platform within the reach of few , especially with regard to gaming and certain professional sectors.

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