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by nerdymanchild 2994 days ago
To what extent are the set of intrinsics used for VP9/h265 decoding unreusable for AV1 decoding? My guess is that there is large amount of reusable intrinsics.
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Intrinsics aren't used. The decoding is generally done by a fixed function hardware block.
Intrinsics must be used, how else is the hardware invoked?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo

>PureVideo occupies a considerable amount of a GPU's die area

Video decoders live somewhere in the general vicinity of the GPU and aren't invoked through CPU instructions. AFAIK.
This thread is about Intel processors, not GPUs
The VP9/H.265 support in Intel chips is on the GPU side.
Thanks for the correction. I think my core point still holds without the intrinsics but I was mistaken on that point.