Category: Hardware

By Pradeep Ramachandran A month or so back, we published a white-paper that gave high-level results on the encoder gains that we saw from our recently implemented AVX512 kernels in x265. We have now published a more detailed paper that tears the results down into more detail, including per-kernel gains for AVX512 over AVX2. The […]

By Pradeep Ramachandran Today Intel launched the next generation of Xeon processors, the Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Family (code-named “Purley”), based on the Skylake CPU architecture.  The Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Family is a powerful new generation of 14nm chips which provide significant improvements over the previous generation of Xeon processors (Xeon E5 v4 and E7 […]