2015-07-24, 15:17
(2015-07-24, 09:01)wrxtasy Wrote: Devices in this category consist of an AMlogic S805 SoC containing a Mali 450 GPU that does 8-bit Hardware HEVC decoding.It's not the Mali 450 GPU that does the hardware decoding is it? Isn't it an additional element on the chip, a VPU or similar, that does this.
Reason I say that is the capabilities of the VPU are independent of the GPU - so you can have SoCs from different manufacturers with different video decoding capabilities in their VPU, but with the same GPU?
Or does the Mali 450 GPU include a standard VPU?