  Versatile Video Coding Standard (H.266/VVC) was completed by Joint Video
Expert Team (JVET) of ITU-T and ISO/IEC, in July 2020. This new ITU
recommendation/international standard is a successor to the well-known
H.265/HEVC video coding standard with roughly doubled compression efficiency,
but also at the cost of an increased computational complexity. The complexity
of H.266/VVC decoder processing modules is studied in this paper. An optimized
decoder implementation using SIMD instruction extensions and additional
parallel processing including data and task level parallelism is presented,
which can achieve real-time decoding of 4K 60fps VVC bitstreams on an x86 based
CPU.
