Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Hard to say. Can you really decompress jpeg on the GPU?

I thought it'd be a standard operation in GPUs by now.  It's the simplest and
most common operation with images.

> > also, remember it's a 5 year old hardware already...
>
> True. But still, it's hardware whose primary purpose is rendering graphics.

not quite.  It used to be true in the 90's that consoles had faster graphics
capabilities than the PC because they used custom graphics hardware.  Hence,
custom chips for graphics were developed for the PC and many years and heavy
games later, consoles now use that very same hardware.  Except the hardware
never upgrades, while in the PC it does. (or better, you do it)

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