Will Pascal cards include hardware HEVC decoder?

[mmocfd1b0ab5a3]

AFAIK GTX950/960 are only cards on the market right now that has hardware decoder for 10-bit HEVC video at 4k.
Will Pascal cards also support this?

[Nevcairiel]

Usually any new generation of cards inherits the latest media features, so chances are that it will. We won't know 100% until its out however.

[mmocfd1b0ab5a3]

Usually any new generation of cards inherits the latest media features, so chances are that it will. We won't know 100% until its out however.

Usually yes, but 970/980Ti didn't get that feature so I wouldn't be surprised if Polaris cards won't have it. Today's CPU can't handle 10bit HEVC via software and Skylake chips only have 8-bit HW support. It would suck to buy GTX950 just for this feature.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Usually yes, but 970/980Ti didn't get that feature so I wouldn't be surprised if Polaris cards won't have it. Today's CPU can't handle 10bit HEVC via software and Skylake chips only have 8-bit HW support. It would suck to buy GTX950 just for this feature.

Polaris will support 4k h.265 encode at 60FPS and h.265 10-bit HEVC main10 decode at 4k.

[Nevcairiel]

Usually yes, but 970/980Ti didn't get that feature so I wouldn't be surprised if Polaris cards won't have it. Today's CPU can't handle 10bit HEVC via software and Skylake chips only have 8-bit HW support. It would suck to buy GTX950 just for this feature.

You are mixing AMD and NVIDIA here, Polaris is not NVIDIA.
Ant the reason 970/980 didn't have it is because 950/960 are about 4-5 months newer, they were not released at the same time.

[mmocfd1b0ab5a3]

Polaris will support 4k h.265 encode at 60FPS and h.265 10-bit HEVC main10 decode at 4k.

How could I have missed this. I assume Pascal cards will also support at least main10. Thanks.