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Re:Comparing H.265 (HEVC) and H265 video file size by p1necone on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:47PM (#26576401)
Looks like most of the cards in the top 20 support H.265 4:2:0 (NVidia 10XX and up), just not 4:4:4 (NVidia 16XX and up).

I don't think the steam hardware survey is a good sample of the wider computer market though - the majority of people using youtube/netflix/etc on x86 devices are probably using Intel laptop chips with integrated graphics, not $500+ dedicated GPUs.

(Although presumably this is probably becoming less true over time, those low end users are moving more and more to mobile devices and smart TVs/chromecast/console, leaving workstation/gaming systems to be a larger percentage of the market)

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Re:Comparing H.265 (HEVC) and H265 video file size by namibj on Thursday March 25, 2021 @12:23AM (#26576577)
Actually, Maxwell (9xx) already supports hardware-accelerated H.265 decoding, but on first-gen Maxwell (the higher-end GTX 970/980 at least) it's not pure hardware decoding and didn't work on Linux last I tried.
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