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No it isn't. "NVDEC" is an actual ASIC block in the GPU silicon. It's not "shaders". Same with AMD's VCN. And Intel's QuickSync. If it was just shaders then th
by kllrnohj 5y ago
No it isn't. "NVDEC" is an actual ASIC block in the GPU silicon. It's not "shaders". Same with AMD's VCN. And Intel's QuickSync.
If it was just shaders then there'd be basically no concerns with driver quality or hardware support, just like there aren't with CPU decoders.
- ocrete 5y agoTo be exact, it depends on the generation of hardware. At leat for Intel and AMD, the first version tend to have more shaders, then they switch to ASICs. Intel actually open sourced the shaders that they use.