An HEVC 8K stream is encoded in real time with an EPYC 7742 processor
They manage to encode a HEVC 8K transmission in real time thanks to the AMD EPYC 7742 processor, with the intention of transmitting Tokyo 2020 in 8K.
The current state of AMD, a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy, is impressive. Lisa Su, the company's CEO, has managed to return it to its top position and compete head-to-head with Intel. It's not just the Ryzen 3000 series that's causing a sensation; the EPYC Rome processors are dominating by shattering records. The latest achievement is encoding HEVC 8K in real time.
Beamr Imaging ensures that last Friday they managed to encode HEVC 8K in real time thanks to an EPYC 7742. This AMD processor has 64 cores and 128 cores based on Zen2 @ 7nm. Specifically, this processor has encoded 8K images in real time at 79 frames per second with 10 bit color for HDR
They encode HEVC 8K in real time thanks to an AMD EPYC Rome
The demand for 8K content encoding in real time with great picture quality has increased lately. This resolution is still far from being a standard within the industry, but it is gaining more and more popularity. This will undoubtedly allow the price of 4K monitors, for example, to plummet shortly.
This is important because it will allow live video streaming at 8K resolutions. But it is that these tests between Beamr and AMD have to do with the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020. The coding and transmission capacity of the EPYC 7742 is being tested to broadcast the Tokyo 2020 sports event live under 8K.
AMD says that EPYCs can be used for much more than streaming video. They say these processors are ideal for "premium video on demand" (Netflix, Hulu, HBO, etc) as well as "streaming game content in the cloud." Google Stadia seems to base its servers on EPYC processors. AMD has also said that Naples (previous generation of EPYC) are sufficient for these utilities, but with resolutions lower than 8K.
Source: TH
