Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 365 from 2003/3/28
Andreas_Wolf,
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I assume from the block diagrams of various chips with Cortex-A9 core(s) where it can be seen that the 2D/3D GPUs are distinct from the video decoding/encoding units
Yes.
GPUs need more power than dedicated video blocks so that alone will get them used.
GPUs also aren't really suited for this sort of thing, they can accelerate some of it but not all.
