Video Codecs Supported by Intel® Arc™ GPUs
Content Type: Product Information & Documentation | Article ID: 000098345 | Last Reviewed: 09/05/2025
| Product family | Intel® Arc™ A-Series | Intel® Core™ Ultra with Intel® Arc™ GPU |
| Media Architecture | Xe-HPM | Xe-LPM+ |
| Multi-Format Codec (MFX) Engines | 2 | 2 |
| Hardware Scaler Engines | 2 | 2 |
| Video Enhancer Engines | 2 | 1 |
| Decode - supported codecs | MPEG2 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) VP9 AV1 | MPEG2 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) VP9 AV1 |
| Encode - supported codecs | AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) VP9 AV1 | AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) VP9 AV1 |
| Decode - supported formats | ||
| MPEG2 | 8-bit 4:2:0 | 8-bit 4:2:0 |
| AVC (H.264) | 8-bit 4:2:0 | 8-bit 4:2:0 |
| HEVC (H.265) | 8-bit 4:2:0 8-bit 4:2:2 8-bit 4:4:4 10-bit 4:2:0 10-bit 4:2:2 10-bit 4:4:4 12-bit 4:2:0 12-bit 4:2:2 12-bit 4:4:4 Screen Content Coding | 8-bit 4:2:0 8-bit 4:2:2 8-bit 4:4:4 10-bit 4:2:0 10-bit 4:2:2 10-bit 4:4:4 12-bit 4:2:0 12-bit 4:2:2 12-bit 4:4:4 Screen Content Coding |
| VP9 | 8-bit 4:2:0 8-bit 4:4:4 10-bit 4:2:0 10-bit 4:4:4 12-bit 4:2:0 12-bit 4:4:4 | 8-bit 4:2:0 8-bit 4:4:4 10-bit 4:2:0 10-bit 4:4:4 12-bit 4:2:0 12-bit 4:4:4 |
| AV1 | 8-bit 4:2:0 10-bit 4:2:0 | 8-bit 4:2:0 10-bit 4:2:0 Film Grain |
| Encode - supported formats | ||
| AVC / H.264 | 8-bit 4:2:0 | 8-bit 4:2:0 |
| HEVC / H.265 | 8-bit 4:2:0 8-bit 4:2:2 8-bit 4:4:4 10-bit 4:2:0 10-bit 4:2:2 10-bit 4:4:4 Screen Content Coding | 8-bit 4:2:0 8-bit 4:2:2 8-bit 4:4:4 10-bit 4:2:0 10-bit 4:2:2 10-bit 4:4:4 Screen Content Coding |
| VP9 | 8-bit 4:2:0 8-bit 4:4:4 10-bit 4:2:0 10-bit 4:4:4 | 8-bit 4:2:0 8-bit 4:4:4 10-bit 4:2:0 10-bit 4:4:4 |
| AV1 | 8-bit 4:2:0 10-bit 4:2:0 | 8-bit 4:2:0 10-bit 4:2:0 |