[FFmpeg-user] [Discussion] FPGA vs GPU for Live Transcoding

[Christian David]

Em dom, 1 de mar de 2020 10:37, Mark Filipak <
markfilipak.windows+ffmpeg at gmail.com> escreveu:

> On 03/01/2020 06:24 AM, Christian David wrote:
> > Em dom., 1 de mar. de 2020 às 06:45, Mark Filipak <
> > markfilipak.windows+ffmpeg at gmail.com> escreveu:
> >
> >> On 03/01/2020 04:29 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> >>>> Am 01.03.2020 um 07:47 schrieb Christian David <
> davidchristia at gmail.com
> >>> :
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi everyone, i was reading about FPGA solutions against traditional
> >>>> solutions with GPUs (Nvidia at most times) for live video
> transcoding..
> >>>
> >>> I was under the impression that all GPU encoding happens on FPGA: Am I
> >> wrong?
> >>
> >> FPGA? Field programmable gate array?
> >
> > Yes,  for example for nvidia hardware acceleration we use one of GPU
> cards
> > from nvidia to do all the job (encoding/decoding), so we can also use CPU
> > solutions with an accelerator card (FPGA)...
>
> Ah! Okay, I get it. You're calling the Alveo U200 board an FPGA because
> it has an XCU200 FPGA mounted on it. That's technically incorrect, and
> it will confuse hardware geeks like me, but I can live with it.
>
So give-me a light about this, your opinion..

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