Download Intel HD Graphics Driver 15.36.14.64.4080

Intel has released new video drivers for the integrated graphics of the fourth and fifth generation Core processors, the so-called Haswell and Broadwell series. The software has been given version number 15.36.14.64.4080 and is available for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, in both 32bit– if 64bitperformances. In addition to the necessary bug fixes, the drivers add support for the h.265 and vp9 video formats, among other things.

New features with this release:

• Improved video playback through partial hardware acceleration support for the VP9 video format.
• Additional OpenCL extension support:
  • cl_intel_subgroups – this extension enables work items to share data without use of shared local memory
  • cl_intel_advanced_motion_estimation – provides access to Intel’s motion estimation hardware acceleration block that can be used by media processing applications including custom transcoders and image stabilization
• Support for OpenGL extension:
  • GL_EXT_polygon_offset_clamp
• GPU accelerated decode of HEVC video file format including both 8-bit and 10-bit support. This will provide improved video playback capabilities on the platforms listed in the following table.