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Soleron said:

 

Intel's Sandy Bridge hardware decoder, which will be on most future CPUs, outperforms very high-end GPUs on video decoding while using a hundredth of the power. That's a major task the industry hoped GPUs would be useful for that could better be served by fixed hardware.

How can a CPU be that much faster than a GPU at decoding video?