PC hardware has widely supported it for five years. If your GPU is from 2021 or newer it should support it. On phones situation is more complicated, Qualcomm and Mediatek has been stingy and restricted it only to their flagship socs. Idk if that had changed recently.
Right, okay, I definitely haven’t bought a new computer in the past 5 years. I wonder if anyone has “how old is the average computer” percentiles, because I have a feeling most people haven’t bought a new computer in the past 5 years, so it seems surprising to supercede a codec after so few years, but maybe I’m the weird one?
It will take years more for it to get adopted by hardware and content vendors. However in order for that to happen the software needs to be available so that people can start to experiment with it. It’s a chicken and egg situation.
PC hardware has widely supported it for five years. If your GPU is from 2021 or newer it should support it. On phones situation is more complicated, Qualcomm and Mediatek has been stingy and restricted it only to their flagship socs. Idk if that had changed recently.
Right, okay, I definitely haven’t bought a new computer in the past 5 years. I wonder if anyone has “how old is the average computer” percentiles, because I have a feeling most people haven’t bought a new computer in the past 5 years, so it seems surprising to supercede a codec after so few years, but maybe I’m the weird one?
It will take years more for it to get adopted by hardware and content vendors. However in order for that to happen the software needs to be available so that people can start to experiment with it. It’s a chicken and egg situation.
even if the ‘next generation’ of gpu and cpu have av2 support baked-in, hardly anyone (with a budget to adhere to) will be able to afford it.
Cheap APUs will probably remain the only affordable option.