Intel CM8064601484200 User Manual

Guide

Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 v3
Product Family

Intel® HD Graphics P4600

Intel® HD Graphics P4600

A Significant Step Forward In Processor Graphics Performance

The Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 v3 product family is built on
Intel’s 22nm process using 3D Tri-Gate transistors. The new Intel® HD
Graphics P4600

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is considered to be an advancement of the previous­generation Intel® HD Graphics technologies that were first introduced
in 2010. Each version including the new Intel HD graphics P4600 repre­sents not a copy of the previous design, but an improvement, and
today represents a new high-end offering of processor-based graphics
for entry-level workstations. It offers an integrated ring bus technol­ogy that connects all CPU components (computational cores, L3 cache,
graphics, and system agent with the memory controller) to enable an
optimized approach of communicating with the system memory –
via the fast L3 cache. The Intel HD Graphics P4600 processor-based
graphics will support Microsoft DirectX11.1,* OpenGL* 4.0, OpenCL* 1.2
and DirectCompute 5.0 standards. In addition to improvements in
both 2D and 3D graphics performance, Intel® Quick Sync Video 2.0
technology almost doubles the H.264 transcoding speed of its
predecessors and now supports up to 4K display resolutions. The
graphics core microarchitecture improvements have produced
noticeable improvement in 3D performance, of as much as 25%

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via 20 execution units and L3 cache.

If your systems are to be employed by users of applications like
the Autodesk AutoCAD*/Inventor*/Revit*; Adobe Premiere,* Adobe
Photoshop,* After Effects,* SolidWorks* and other similar volume
professional software applications, the Intel Xeon processor E3-1200
v3 product family with Intel HD Graphics P4600 offers competitive
performance to entry-level professional discrete graphics cards.

The Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v3 product family with Intel HD
Graphics P4600 represents a significant evolution for graphics and
media capabilities. Updates to processor graphics include:

• Significant 3D enhancements include Microsoft DirectX11, hardware
tessellation, two programmable stages (HS and DS) and one fixed­function Tessellator as well as new compressed texture format
support for BC6H/7.

• More key changes include:

– Increased number of Execution Units
– Enhanced compute shader support for data parallelism, UAVs,

atomics, barriers
– Improved shared local memory for compute shaders
– Support for scatter gather
– Provision for shader model 5.1 (new DX11 instructions)
– Improved geometry performance
– Increase in Hi-Z performance

Core

Core

Core

Core

Processor

LLC

LLC

LLC

LLC

Graphics

• A scalable architecture partitioned into 5 domains consisting of:

– Global assets: Includes geometry front-end up to setup
– Slice common: Includes rasterizer, L3$ and pixel back-end
– Slice: shaders (EUs), IC$, samplers, Addrs Gen
– CODEX and media
– Displays

Media Block

VDBOX

VEBOX

Processor Graphics Components

EU

EU

EU

EU

EU

EU

…

EU

EU

EU

EU

EU

EU

Sampler

Sampler

Sampler

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…
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Table 1. Graphics Comparison Table

SPECIFICATIONS INTEL® HD GRAPHICS P4600

Processor Support

Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 v3 family
(12X5 series)

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Processor Based Yes Yes

ECC Memory Support Yes No

Optimized and certied for professional applications Yes No

Processor Clock Speed Up to 4.0 GHz Up to 3.9 GHz

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0

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Support Yes Yes

Execution Units 20 20/16

Shared L3 Cache Yes Ye s

Graphics Frequency (MAX) Up to 1300 MHz Up to 1200 MHz

Max Dynamic Video Memory (Vista*/Windows* 7
for 1 GB/2 GB/>4 GB System Memory) 256 MB/>783 MB/1692 MB 256 MB/>783 MB/1692 MB

Shader Model Support 5.1 Yes Yes

Number of Displays 3 3

Intel® Flexible Display Interface Yes Yes

Max Resolution

DisplayPort*/HDMI- 3840x2160@ 60Hz,
4096x2304@24Hz, VGA

Dual Simultaneous HDMI Support Yes Yes

Display Port Standard 1.2 1.2

HDMI (V.1.4 with 3D) Yes Yes

Bit Color Depth 12bpc DisplayPort, DVI, VGA, SDVD Yes Yes

8-Channel LPCM Yes Yes

Display Port Audio Yes Yes

Dolby TrueHD* and DTS*-HD Master Audio Yes Yes

Encoding/Decoding Hardware Acceleration Yes Yes

H.264 Yes Yes

MPEG2 Encode Yes Yes

AVC, MPEG, VC1 Encode Yes Yes

Video Decode Streams 12 12

Total Color Control Yes Yes

Skin Tone Detection/Correction Yes Ye s

Auto Contrast Enhancement Yes Yes

ProcAMP Yes Yes

Sharpness Yes Yes

xvYCC Yes Yes

Advanced De-Interlacing Yes Yes

Film Mode Detection Yes Yes

Noise Detection Yes Yes

Scaling 8x8 Polyphase Yes Yes

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INTEL® HD GRAPHICS 4600/4400

Intel® Core™ i3 processor, Intel® Core™ i5
processor, Intel® Core™ i7 processor

DisplayPort*/HDMI- 3840x2160@ 60Hz,
4096x2304@24Hz, VGA

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