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Everything about Video Core Next
AMD hardware video codec, built into AMD GPUs and APUs
Video Core Next is AMD's brand for its dedicated video encoding and decoding hardware core. It is a family of hardware accelerator designs for encoding and decoding video, and is built into AMD's GPUs and APUs since AMD Raven Ridge, released January 2018. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Video Core NextA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: The Conspirators HierarchyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Go sideways: Unified Video DecoderA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Video Coding EngineA closely related topic
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📚 Books worth reading
The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
Your Ableton Live studioChris Buono · 2011
The PlayStation 2 & PlayStation EncyclopediaPaul Curthoys, Dan Amrich · 2000
The end of molasses classesRon Clark · 2011
Mathematical Proof of the Existence of GodIamwe · 2014
Introduction to making very big booksUnited States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Pensions · 2011
survival companion for medical students, graduates and interns · 2014
A TOUR OF THE WORLDMalik Mansab Khan, Muhammad Rafique Abdul Aziz · 2025
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