[Ronen Pestes] “With RED Decoding I understand that most of the heavy lifting is done by the GPU. Please correct me if I am wrong..”
You are wrong. 😉
Most of the debayering/decompression is done by the CPU. In other raw formats the GPU is able to help. But RED encrypts their r3d files which prevents this.
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