Device hardware = PQ?

by niveknow

Does a better faster or more ram translate to a better picture quality?

I own a shield and ONN which are on opposite ends of the pricing spectrum. Aside for the Shields AI and other bells and whistles I’m wondering if the physical hardware truly yield in better PQ. I can argue if a device is obviously struggling that it would skip frames or other tearing issues. How if both are running smoothly without any obvious issues should we all get the same quality on the exact same screen resolution refresh color depth etc.

Can anyone shed some light or technical explanations. Or links? Thanks.

Deadpool-fan-466

PQ depends on CPU, GPU & codec support afaik

Quick_Roll354

No. The processor (only if there is no hardware-codec-accelleration used) is the stuff whih is the most-important if you want higher picture-quality.

And there no bazillion Gflops will help you if the bandwith of the processor is slow.

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E.g. if you use an old video-format such as MPEG1, your bandwidth-requirement is much, much higher as those old formats were easy to calculate but costly in bandwith (50 Mbits of bandwith is a possibility for a simple MPEG1-video).

See?

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Now google at what bandwidth Youtube streams. Something like ~5 Mbits only. lol

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See? You can easily create such a video with an encoder, and it will fail to be played on a modern smartphone or even on some newer laptops. Because your processor is simply too slow for it!

This is why modern videoformats only use like 5 Mbits of bandwidth but have to rely on 1 Tflop-like performance in order to handle smooth-transition.