DRIVER VERSION: 24.20.100.6094
(Windows* Graphics Driver Version: 24.20.100.6094)
DATE: May 22, 2018
Intel graphics has a long history of delivering the functionality needed for consumers to watch the highest quality video on the PC. In 2016, Intel was the first graphics vendor to deliver PlayReady 3 support, allowing Netflix 4K playback for the first time on PCs. This same capability also unlocked premium HDR movie playback on Intel graphics. [Intel graphics is the first and still only graphics HW that supports Ultra HD Blu-ray on the PC]
Today, Intel is pleased to announce support for Microsoft PlayReady 4.0. With support for a larger number of encryption and container formats, PlayReady 4.0 allows consumers to watch premium streaming movies and TV from a larger number of content providers around the planet.
- Support for Microsoft PlayReady* 4.0 DRM content
- Updated Vulkan to 1.1.73
- Improved video encoding/decoding in Handbrake*, VLC*, and other similar applications
- Overall performance improvement for DirectX* 11 games
- Compiler Improvements
- Added OCL compiler option to disable Pre-RA Scheduler which allows developers to tune their applications.
- Improved memory usage when compiling DirectX9 Shaders
- Enabled Programmable MSAA for Redstone 4 (Windows 10 April 2018 Update)
- Enabled Half Precision (16-bit integer) Render Targets for DX12.
- SPIR-V SPV_INTEL_subgroups and SPV_intel_media_block_io implementation
Platforms:
- 6th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) processor family (Codename Skylake)
- 7th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) processor family (Codename Kaby Lake)
- 8th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) processor family (Codenames Kaby Lake R, Coffee Lake)
- Apollo Lake
- Gemini Lake
Product Support:
Supports Intel(R) UHD Graphics, Intel(R) UHD Graphics, Intel(R) HD Graphics, Intel(R) Iris(R) Plus Graphics, Intel(R) Iris(R) Pro Graphics & Intel(R) HD Graphics on:
- 6th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) processor family (Codename Skylake)
- 7th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) processor family (Codename Kaby Lake)
- 8th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) processor family (Codenames Kaby Lake R, Coffee Lake)
- Apollo Lake
- Gemini Lake