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Originally Posted by benwaggoner
I've heard indications that the extra transistors required for AV1 decoding are a lot higher than anticipated, and higher than the delta for HEVC.
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Hmm, this is quite strange. From what I've heard hardware vendors had a large say at the table with AV1 design, with the purpose of minimizing the complexity of encoding and decoding hardware. Do you know which functions or aspects of the fixed function hardware takes more die size than expected?
Also some two detail from Google Stadia: At launch they will use VP9 hardware encoding and somewhere in the future they will switch to AV1, but only when hardware encoding is available.
15:19 for VP9, 22:53 for AV1, 31:45 for hardware video encoders.