2016-12-20, 07:28
As mentioned in one of my earlier posts a few months back I have no issues watching HEVC-10 bit (1080x1920/24p) on a four years old Intel i3 PC (from Aldi, with onboard GPU, 'standard' graphics driver as per the Kodi's install recommendations for Intel GPUs) and Kodi 16.1 on a 2 years old custom Kernel from Fritch ... with about 30-35% CPU utilisation on peaks for one or two cores, the other two CPU cores hovering around the 10-15% mark. It baffles me that you can't watch HEVC-10 bit on a i5 Don't need HW decoding, unless you have a need to watch 3 HEVC-10 bit movies simultaneously on your TV!!! I can only focus on one movie at a time
Have no issues watching HEVC-10 bit (also 1080x1920/24p) on a AMD based PC (again a cheap PC from Aldi lol ... onboard R7 graphics, almost 2 years old), albeit with slightly higher CPU utilisation, but still well below the 50% CPU utilisation mark ... again, no HW Accel required (Kodi 17.1, Padoka radeonsi driver).
My experience is to stay away from AMD based GPUs for now as support is patchy, difficult to get a 'good driver' without some sort of optimisation required ... stick to Intel for Linux based systems for now
Have no issues watching HEVC-10 bit (also 1080x1920/24p) on a AMD based PC (again a cheap PC from Aldi lol ... onboard R7 graphics, almost 2 years old), albeit with slightly higher CPU utilisation, but still well below the 50% CPU utilisation mark ... again, no HW Accel required (Kodi 17.1, Padoka radeonsi driver).
My experience is to stay away from AMD based GPUs for now as support is patchy, difficult to get a 'good driver' without some sort of optimisation required ... stick to Intel for Linux based systems for now