hardware acceleration
Chip-assisted speed boost
Hardware acceleration is using specialized components—graphics cards, dedicated chips—to perform tasks faster than general-purpose processors can.
Video playback, 3D rendering, and machine learning run more efficiently when offloaded to hardware designed for those operations: Enable hardware acceleration for smoother streaming.
The term implies a performance boost over software-only processing.
Images displayed per second
- fpsDisplay refresh measurement
- ray tracingRendering via light physics
- shadersGraphics rendering programs
- renderingInterpretive depiction or performance
anti-aliasing · texture · resolution · refresh rate · tearing · DirectX · Vulkan · overclocking
Visual processing hardware
- CPUMain computing chip
- ASICSingle-purpose microchip
- parallelismMatching structural elements
- offloadingTransferring goods elsewhere
throughput · latency · bandwidth · compute · pipelining · vectorization · multithreading · instruction set
Converting data to format
- decodingExtracting meaning from symbols
- transcodingMedia format conversion process
- codecData compression algorithm
- H.264Video compression standard
playback · streaming · bitrate · compression · decompression · 4K · HDR
framerate
Images displayed per second
- fpsDisplay refresh measurement
- ray tracingRendering via light physics
- shadersGraphics rendering programs
rendering · anti-aliasing · texture · resolution · refresh rate · tearing · DirectX · Vulkan · overclocking · benchmarking
GPU
Visual processing hardware
- CPUMain computing chip
- ASICSingle-purpose microchip
- parallelismMatching structural elements
offloading · throughput · latency · bandwidth · compute · pipelining · vectorization · multithreading · instruction set · cache
encoding
Converting data to format
- decodingExtracting meaning from symbols
- transcodingMedia format conversion process
- codecData compression algorithm
H.264 · playback · streaming · bitrate · compression · decompression · 4K · HDR
- computationlinear algebra, parallel processing, dot product, batch processing, pipelining
- FPGAslookup table, bitstream, bitstreams, configuration, interconnect
- browser renderingpaint, repaint, reflow, layout, compositing
- packet switchingswitching, lookup table, encapsulation, unicast, multicast
- web performanceload time, response time, caching, browser cache, CDN
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