Cheap 4K UHD

[Nuluvius]

Intel ARK seems to suggest that even the lowest end sub £100 i3 is capable of 4K playback at 60Hz. I'm wondering if anyone has thus far put this to the test? Obviously this is hardware rendering as software rendering would greatly exceed the capacity of the chip. The other significant prerequisite is HDMI 2.0 which can currently be accomplished by DP => HDMI conversion in the absence of an adequately specced motherboard.

[007agentHP]

4 minutes ago, Nuluvius said:

Intel ARK seems to suggest that even the lowest end sub £100 i3 is capable of 4K playback at 60Hz. I'm wondering if anyone has thus far put this to the test? Obviously this is hardware rendering as software rendering would greatly exceed the capacity of the chip. The other significant prerequisite is HDMI 2.0 which can currently be accomplished by DP => HDMI conversion in the absence of an adequately specced motherboard.

that's actually 5k (?)

4k is 3840x2160

it should support it but if you intend to game you will not be having fun

[Nuluvius]

1 minute ago, 007agentHP said:

it should support it but if you intend to game you will not be having fun

No that's not the intention. I'm considering a minimal HTPC spec that will adequately handle 4K.

[ALwin]

8 minutes ago, 007agentHP said:

that's actually 5k (?)

4k is 3840x2160

it should support it but if you intend to game you will not be having fun

DCI 4K is 4096x2160, don't confuse 4K with UHD.

[Stagea]

1 hour ago, Nuluvius said:

Intel ARK seems to suggest that even the lowest end sub £100 i3 is capable of 4K playback at 60Hz. I'm wondering if anyone has thus far put this to the test? Obviously this is hardware rendering as software rendering would greatly exceed the capacity of the chip. The other significant prerequisite is HDMI 2.0 which can currently be accomplished by DP => HDMI conversion in the absence of an adequately specced motherboard.

There is hardware decode support for 4Kp60 HEVC Main (8-bit). Main10 playback would have to be done using software (utilizing the GPU shaders for acceleration). GPU acceleration should do just fine for lower bitrate HEVC Main10, but I doubt it'd handle high bitrate Main10 well. 

 

If you want a low cost Main10 solution, consider the RX 460.

[Nuluvius]

10 hours ago, Stagea said:

There is hardware decode support for 4Kp60 HEVC Main (8-bit). Main10 playback would have to be done using software (utilizing the GPU shaders for acceleration). GPU acceleration should do just fine for lower bitrate HEVC Main10, but I doubt it'd handle high bitrate Main10 well. 

 

If you want a low cost Main10 solution, consider the RX 460.

I had a suspicion so. What about the imminent Kaby Lake release?

[Stagea]

18 hours ago, Nuluvius said:

I had a suspicion so. What about the imminent Kaby Lake release?

Kaby Lake is supposed to have it. I hope they also enable 10 bpc and 12 bpc on the desktop (Nvidia and AMD had supported this for quite some time). Intel's current windows drivers only support deep color for full screen DirectX applications.