VVC Complexity and Software Implementation Analysis

A steady increase in available processing power continues to drive advances video compression technology. The recently completed Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard aims double the efficiency of HEVC and deliver a same quality at half bitrate. To achieve this goal, VVC includes several new methods that improve coding cost increased complexity. This paper provides complexity analysis its VTM reference software. Whereas is more complex than HEVC, it remains readily implementable software on current generation processors. Performance practical decoders are reported, showing real-time decoding 8K content feasible. An encoder also presented, most gains over can be obtained small fraction resources needed by under common test conditions.