dav1d 0.8 Released With More Optimizations - More AMD Performance

[MadeUpName]

Thanks for including some 4K and 10 bit results.

[bug77]

While the above charts tends to show more the shear performance of high end x86 systems, the real excitement is on the lower end x86 and with a lot of the arm tv box and sbc now having the ability to play most 1080p 8bit AV1 content that you may encounter, thanks to the work done by the dav1d team. Some higher end arm devices are even edging closer to doing watchable 4k 8bit decoding.

10bit decoding still needs a bit more to get really usable on arm, but is progressing well with each release as well.

The real excitement is AV1 getting actual hardware support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Hardware
Granted, it's mostly decode for the time being, but I think it's a better start than most recent codecs.

That's not to say dav1d doesn't have its uses. I just thought we shouldn't lose sight of the bigger picture here.

[Guest]

Wow, I didn't really pay attention to these benchmarks for a while. I guess AV1 @ 1080p is now playable on just about any mainstream CPU from about the past 10 years?

I remember back when H.264 was still too slow to play 1080p smoothly, on a Pentium 4.

True, I was desperately compiling mplayer with march and mtune set to native, just so I could play a 720p video smoothly on a Pentium 4.

[Guest]

The real excitement is AV1 getting actual hardware support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Hardware
Granted, it's mostly decode for the time being, but I think it's a better start than most recent codecs.

That's not to say dav1d doesn't have its uses. I just thought we shouldn't lose sight of the bigger picture here.

IIRC Tigerlake has AV1 encode support as well

[Guest]

While the above charts tends to show more the shear performance of high end x86 systems, the real excitement is on the lower end x86 and with a lot of the arm tv box and sbc now having the ability to play most 1080p 8bit AV1 content that you may encounter, thanks to the work done by the dav1d team. Some higher end arm devices are even edging closer to doing watchable 4k 8bit decoding.

10bit decoding still needs a bit more to get really usable on arm, but is progressing well with each release as well.

That's good, because YouTube has already defaulted to AV1 on many of their videos in the web browser. Meanwhile I still have hardware that can only decode H.264 and H.265........

[Michael]

While the above charts tends to show more the shear performance of high end x86 systems, the real excitement is on the lower end x86 and with a lot of the arm tv box and sbc now having the ability to play most 1080p 8bit AV1 content that you may encounter, thanks to the work done by the dav1d team. Some higher end arm devices are even edging closer to doing watchable 4k 8bit decoding.

10bit decoding still needs a bit more to get really usable on arm, but is progressing well with each release as well.

There are more low-end CPUs now listed on the composite rankings @ https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/dav1d