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Much more importantly for ARM phones video isn't decoded in the CPU at all, the SOC has video codecs built in. This allows things like all day netflix/hbo witho
by timthelion 3y ago
Much more importantly for ARM phones video isn't decoded in the CPU at all, the SOC has video codecs built in. This allows things like all day netflix/hbo without draining the battery. AMD cpus don't have video codec coprocessors as far as I know. Not sure about GPUs though...
- bayindirh 3y agoAll of the big three GPU vendors (Intel, AMD, NVIDIA) support hardware video decoding and encoding onboard their GPUs for a very long time. Intel and NVIDIA generally adds dedicated silicon for these tasks, and AMD prefers to use shaders for video tasks. They started doing shader based video processing in Radeon 8500 days, and they're very experienced in video processing, since they had AiO wonder cards which did also capture and even TV in some models. Trying to render analog signals nicely on a PC screen provided them considerable R&D and know how during that journey. Correction: AMD has dedicated video encoder DSP called VCE[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Coding_Engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Coding_Engine