[nerdymanchild]

Intrinsics must be used, how else is the hardware invoked?

[ckocagil]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo

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

[blattimwind]

Video decoders live somewhere in the general vicinity of the GPU and aren't invoked through CPU instructions. AFAIK.

[nerdymanchild]

This thread is about Intel processors, not GPUs

[fulafel]

The VP9/H.265 support in Intel chips is on the GPU side.

[nerdymanchild]

Thanks for the correction. I think my core point still holds without the intrinsics but I was mistaken on that point.