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Old 10th August 2013, 06:26   #19809  |  Link
nevcairiel
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Originally Posted by Mangix View Post
Video decoding is implemented using a dedicated ARM CPU on most GPUs. It doesn't really drain GPU resources.

It does drain memory bandwidth, which can matter on low end GPUs.

PS:
It'usually an ASIC ( fixed function hardware) which does the decoding, not an ARM CPU.
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