Intel Media Driver adds 13th-generation Core support
Intel’s 13th-generation Core processor Raptor Lake is expected to be launched in the second half of this year, most likely around October. If there is no accident, the desktop version of Raptor Lake-S will be launched first, and the mobile version of Raptor Lake should be released at CES in January next year. Intel Media Driver is the encoding, decoding, and post-processor video acceleration API for Intel GPUs, recently updated to version 22.4.4 which mentions Raptor Lake-S and Raptor Lake-P.
According to the current news, the integrated graphics of Raptor Lake is still based on the Xe-LP architecture, and there will be no major changes compared with the current 12th-generation Core Alder Lake.
In fact, the Raptor Lake processor should also be divided into three cores: S, P, and M like the Alder Lake. S is for desktop and mobile high-performance platforms, that is, 55W+ HX series processors. The P core is used on mobile platforms ranging from 15W to 45W, including H, P, and U series processors. The M core is used on 5W to 9W platforms.
So far, most of the news about Raptor Lake processors is based on desktop Raptor Lake-S, and there is some news about the mobile version of Raptor Lake-P, but little news about Raptor Lake-M. We saw the desktop version of Raptor Lake-S ES, which has up to 8 P-Cores and 16 E-Cores, and it’s no surprise that it will also be used on the next-generation HX series processors to counter AMD’s Dragon Range. As for Raptor Lake-P, according to the news, it has up to 6 P-Cores and 16 E-Cores, and the integrated graphics scale will be larger than that of Raptor Lake-S.
