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> The use of WebGL and shader programs may improve the power efficiency somewhat, but they are still inferior to the dedicated motion video hardware found in al
by ndesaulniers 14y ago
> The use of WebGL and shader programs may improve the power efficiency somewhat, but they are still inferior to the dedicated motion video hardware found in all modern GPUs.
Um...what? Last time I checked WebGL ran and "shader programs" ran on the GPU. What am I missing?
- p_l 14y agoThe actual decoding passes don't translate well to shader architectures, so GPUs include custom circuitry to handle various transformations involved in decoding.