Re:AV1: A new general-purpose video codec
by FridgeSeal on Monday April 09, 2018 @08:10PM
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The power of FPGA's is their flexibility, not their pure performance.
Dedicated, fixed silicon will outperform FPGA's in performance and energy use practically every time.
For rare/uncommon use cases, having an FPGA you can adapt to your algorithm is fantastic, but for a use case as common and day-to-day as decoding video, a dedicated chip is far more ideal.
Dedicated, fixed silicon will outperform FPGA's in performance and energy use practically every time.
For rare/uncommon use cases, having an FPGA you can adapt to your algorithm is fantastic, but for a use case as common and day-to-day as decoding video, a dedicated chip is far more ideal.