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It's a bit concerning that the new chips have special purpose video codec hardware. I hope this trend doesn't continue, requiring laptops from different manufac
by soheil 5y ago
It's a bit concerning that the new chips have special purpose video codec hardware. I hope this trend doesn't continue, requiring laptops from different manufacturers to play different video formats or at least with a non-degraded quality.
- Synaesthesia 5y agoVideo encode and decode have been GPU and integrated GFX features for quite a long time now.
- astrange 5y agoWell, they've been features of special ASICs that just happen to be on the GPU. Video decoding is not really suitable for CPUs (especially since H.264 or so) but it's even less suitable for GPGPU.