[sagarm]

Can a "lower budget" FPGA really outperform a consumer-grade CPU for this?

And what hobbyist is sending off decoding chips to be fabbed? If this exists, it sounds interesting if incredibly impractical.

[tverbeure]

It’s not possible on any but the largest $$$ FPGAs… and even then we often need to partition over multiple FPGAs to make it fit. And it will only run at a fraction of the target clock speed.