Intel introduced its new Xeon processor E3-1500 v5 family for accelerating video and graphic-intensive applications.
The new chips combine the performance of Intel Xeon processors with Intel Iris Pro Graphics P580, Intel’s most advanced graphics processor. The Xeon processor E3-1500 v5 family is based on Intel’s Skylake microarchitecture and its 14nm transistor technology.
Intel said the design idea for the Xeon processor E3-1500 v5 is to pack more video streams per watt into a single server or appliance, enabling service providers to deliver high-quality content on demand, including live broadcasting and videoconferencing. The processors provide hardware-enhanced High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) transcoding of 4K video.
Specifically, the product family can deliver two real-time HEVC streams for 4K 30 frame-per-second (FPS) video and up to 18 AVC streams for taking 1080p 30 frame-per-second video and transcoding it into HEVC at the same resolution.
