NVIDIA PureVideo HD on GeForce 8500 and 8600 series uses new Video processing engine
Bluetooth 17 Apr 2007

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Introduction

NVIDIA will launch its mid range of DX10 graphics cards on 17 Apr 2007. With improved design over the previous generation GPU, the 8500 series and 8600 series GPU is also making new changes to its PureVideo engine.

As we all know, PureVideo HD is the core of a complete solution. Graphics card with HDCP is able to decode HD DVD or Bluray discs and display them on HDCP complaint LCD TV via HDMI interface.

Currently, there are two players, WinDVD and PowerDVD. Their latest editions all support PureVideo HD.

As contents becomes more readily available, the challenge to lower the GPU usage is inevitable. The 8500 and 8600 series incorporates a new video processor architecture.

GeForce 8600 and 8500 series GPUs features a revolutionary new video processing engine. A new video processor (VP) block provides more advanced video post processing to improve overall video quality. A new integrated bitstream processor (BSP) allows the 8500 and 8600 GPUs to perform full HD decode. They are the world’s first video processors to offload from the CPU 100% of Blu-ray and HD DVD H.264 video decoding, enabling playback on mainstream CPUs and providing unsurpassed movie picture quality and low power consumption. PureVideo HD support for Vista is available now for GeForce 7 and 8 series GPUs. PureVideo HD support for the 8500 and 8600 GPUs under Windows XP is expected in June 2007.

More Powerful Video Processor (VP2)
CPU offload of IDCT, MoComp and Deblocking functions for MPEG-2, VC-1, H.264
Secondary (PiP) video streams decoded on chip
H.264 Bitstream Processor (BSP)
Dedicated engine for H.264 CABAC/CAVLC reverse entropy decoding
 

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