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Originally Posted by sneaker_ger
Yes, hardware support is disappointing.
IIRC for HEVC the Samsung and LG TVs were the first to have hardware decoding in late 2013/early 2014 after HEVC approval by ITU in April 2013. Now AV1 finalization was in June 2018 and still no hardware in sight, really. Intel probably Tiger Lake Q2 2020 at the earliest. Nvidia with Ampere also 2020? Nothing from Qualcomm.
Looks like they all started working on it pretty late.
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The incremental cost to add AV1 into a CPU would be a lot lower than in a SoC, because a GPU already has so many transistors.
The make or break is how many extra mm^2 the decoder takes.