Overview: Media-engine generations
Media-engine generations describe capability changes that must be read at the level of codec, operation and stream properties.
A support matrix can distinguish decoding from encoding and one profile or sample format from another. Its device and driver scope matters as well. This area explains how to read those entries, then connects them to the named Intel, NVIDIA and AMD engine generations.
How to read a hardware codec support matrix
A hardware codec matrix relates a particular device or implementation to operation-specific codec, format and resource capabilities whose headings, legends and footnotes define the answer.Intel media-engine generations
Intel generation pages describe the media capabilities associated with particular processor or graphics-engine families.NVIDIA media-engine generations
NVIDIA generation pages connect named graphics families with the scope of their video-engine capabilities.AMD VCN generation capabilities
AMD VCN capability tables separate codec directions, sample configurations and product-specific engine availability, including exceptions within one named generation.