Analysis of Graphics Accelerators Performance during Media Playback @ AnandTech
 

*Source: AnandTech (http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...ayback2.html)*
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High-definition video on PC has become very widely spread over the past couple of months: full-HD monitors are currently available for $500, Blu-Ray optical drives sell at about $250, and the leading graphics processor developers are already offering inexpensive chips that are promised to free the CPUs completely from video-data decoding. But is it all as simple as it seems? Let’s try to find out together!

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