Quicksync kaby lake update#

Will those two be possible? The 7600 is a 65W processor, if I'm not mistaken, which may be a little too much for a passive cooler?Yes, even the low-power 35W like the Core i5-7400T might be too much.ĪETAaAS's recommendation for the Kaby Lake Pentiums is good, although for media handling duties it's probably best to get either the G4600 or the G4620 for the HD630 rather than the HD610 in the G4560.

The Pentiums got HT on some models, some run at lower TPDs (~35w) and as long as you check on Intel's ARK to make sure they have Quicksync and a 6xx series GPU, you should be good to go. Someone else may chime in on that.Įdit: Hell, you can get a Pentium or Celeron Kaby Lake if you are going ultra budget. īagnaj's suggestion of a dGPU is another path but I am not entirely sure on that side which GPUs properly support 10bit HEVC decode.

Quicksync kaby lake update#

Note you may need a BIOS update to go to Kaby Lake. On balance of cost, heat generation, the limited half height PCI expansion which you may already be using for something else and for the sake of just keeping it neat, a CPU upgrade is appealing. I note your listed case is a Streacom F8C. So you don't have to splash out on a i5, you can go for a lower power i3 to save cost and heat. Kaby Lake brings in full hardware 10bit HEVC support. Skylake can do 8bit HEVC on the FFP but 10bit is partially offloaded to the CPU. Skylake (your CPU) only has partial hardware decoding for that. Looking at the video you were trying to play, it's a 10bit HEVC file. I don't think it is the bitrate which is causing problems.