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bapak 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV...

Unless they create a codec that GPUs are naturally good at, we will inevitably always be a couple of hardware cycles behind.

astrange 11 months ago [–]

You can't do this because GPUs are parallel and decompression cannot be parallel. If there's any parallelism it means it's not compressed as much as it could be.

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