Composition and overlay support in HW/GPU for Intel® Pentium® Processor N3700

[Satyajit_K_]

Hi,

We are planning to use Intel® Pentium® Processor N3700 based NUC for our development. It has Gen 8, Intel® HD Graphics unit.

One of our mandatory requirement is to support composition, overlay and VPP filters in GPU/HW. 

We are planning to use Intel Media SDK VPP component in HW mode for the same. 

Can anybody from Intel confirm if above mentioned VPP operations are supported completely in HW/GPU for this N3700 processor?

Also, in future our final deployment will happen on Gen 9 GPU based processor. So we believe it is safe to assume that if above operations are supported in Gen 8 GPU then they should be supported on Gen 9 as well.  Please confirm.

Also, to achieve the same if any update in GPU drivers/libva library is needed, please let us know. 

Since we need to order this N3700 based development platform, a quick response from anybody from Intel will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Satyajit

[Harshdeep_B_Intel]

Hi Satyajit,

Let me answer you questions one by one, so we do not miss any.

Can anybody from Intel confirm if above mentioned VPP operations are supported completely in HW/GPU for this N3700 processor? -> VPP HW support is provided via our graphics feature Intel® quick sync video, where Intel® Pentium® Processor N3700 (http://ark.intel.com/products/87261/Intel-Pentium-Processor-N3700-2M-Cache-up-to-2_40-GHz) supports Intel® quick sync video. You can verify on above link under Graphics specifications tab. Hence the VPP operations are supported in HW/GPU for this processor.

So we believe it is safe to assume that if above operations are supported in Gen 8 GPU then they should be supported on Gen 9 as well.  Please confirm.->Yes, we maintain a backward compatibility with our HW support and all the features/operations supported on Gen8 are supported on Gen9 along with additional features and can expect performance improvement. 

Also, to achieve the same if any update in GPU drivers/libva library is needed, please let us know.-> We recommend using latest drivers available on https://downloadcenter.intel.com/. You can download and update to latest drivers from the link. 

Let us know if you have any further questions on mediasdk forum here:  https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-media-sdk. It will be easier for us to track and respond.

Thanks, 

[Satyajit_K_]

Hi Harsh,

Thank you for confirmation.

While posting further queries, we'll take care of correct forum selection. Thank you once again for your prompt reply.

Thanks and regards,

Satyajit 

[Harshdeep_B_Intel]

Hi Satyajit, 

You are welcome. So, we can go ahead and close this thread. Please feel free to open new post on mediaSDK forum on further questions. 

Thanks,