alt Hacker NewsThe primary advantage of dedicated hardware accelerators for the past ~15 years been power efficiency, rather than performance. Not much of a problem on a desktop, but very noticeable on mobile devices.
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BoingBoomTschak • yesterday at 7:57 PM
I could also imagine the decoded output being pluggable into Vulkan-based filters (mpv uses https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libplacebo) without slow device->host copying.
8K decoding needs HW acceleration, unless having 8-16 cores with AVX-512.