Dav1d 0.8 was released this weekend (and subsequently 0.8.1 too) as the latest major release for this CPU-based AV1 decoder hosted by the VideoLAN project. Dav1d continues to be about offering the best AV1 decode speed and with the v0.8 series are even faster results — so here are some of our initial data points as well from some weekend benchmarking…

Source: Phoronix – dav1d 0.8 Released With More Optimizations – More AMD Performance