Inside the Intel Haswell Microarchitecture
New 2D Video Engine
Contents
The new 2D video engine expands the capabilities of the video engine present on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture by adding support for 4K resolution (up to 3840 x 2160 @ 60 Hz on DisplayPort or up to 4096 x 2304 @ 24 Hz on HDMI), integrated media encoder now supporting MPEG2 and SVC encoding, integrated media decoder now supporting MJPEG and SVC decoding, and support for new image enhancements, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: New image quality enhancements