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Originally Posted by Blight
With laptops/tablets/cellphones, hardware acceleration allows for a longer battery life.
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With tablets and cellphones that may be true, however for laptops i'm not 100% sure. Maybe in this generation thats still true, but for the future....
For CPUs, one key factor is also getting more efficient, while GPUs are apparently always going for power. On a desktop PC, the power usage difference today between DXVA2 and a software codec isn't all that big to begin with, so if the CPU gets faster and more efficient at the same time, there might be a point where the power argument is invalid (on PC/Laptop parts - SoC parts for tablets and phones are still far away from that).
Anyhow, i have quite some hope for Intels future CPUs, the Tri-Gate Transistors will be quite a nice boost both in performance and efficiency.