[nekrosoft13]

anyone know if Intel M5-6y57 a 6th gen broadwell CPU with Intel HD 515 can do HEVC 10bit hardware decoding?

[pulsewave]

Not via hardware, 10bit HEVC hardware decoding was only added on Intel's 7th gen CPUs, the 6th gen can only do 8bit hardware decoding of HEVC

[nekrosoft13]

broadwell i5 can do hevc 10bit... will double check

so is that a limitation of the hd 515?

[Matt Devo]

broadwell i5 can do hevc 10bit... will double check

so is that a limitation of the hd 515?

Broadwell is 5th gen, not 6th. But either way, only KabyLake/ApolloLake SoCs/CPUs have GPUs which can decode HEVC-10 bit in hardware, period. Broadwell/Skylake and anything older cannot.

[nekrosoft13]

my mistake, i mean skylake, 6th gen

[nekrosoft13]

skylake i5 supports hevc 10


does anyone have m5 6th gen skylake based?

[Matt Devo]

skylake i5 supports hevc 10

No, it does not. On SKL, the Windows driver uses a sort of "hybrid" decoding where it's more like a GPU assist than GPU decoding, but it's nothing like the actual GPU decoding done by KBL/APL. Because there's still a significant load on the CPU, it's quite possible that a core I5 would be able to better handle HEVC-10 than the M5, especially at higher resolutions (ie, above 1080p). Just because the driver says it's supported doesn't mean the actual hardware is capable.

[nekrosoft13]

skylake i5 supports hevc 10

No, it does not. On SKL, the Windows driver uses a sort of "hybrid" decoding where it's more like a GPU assist than GPU decoding, but it's nothing like the actual GPU decoding done by KBL/APL. Because there's still a significant load on the CPU, it's quite possible that a core I5 would be able to better handle HEVC-10 than the M5, especially at higher resolutions (ie, above 1080p). Just because the driver says it's supported doesn't mean the actual hardware is capable.

ok, that makes sense, I will be ok with "hybrid" so does anyone know if the m5 skylake has the same hybrid mode?