Is there an example of a video that can be encoded at 5MB with H.264 that can be encoded at an equivalent quality with VP9 at 3MB? There are a lot of things to say about this article, but that seems most glaring.
The first draft of H.264 is over over 20 years old. And in most of these comparison they could use anywhere from Baseline to High Profile. Modern VP9 could compete with HEVC, 40% reduction of Bitrate is very reasonable between generations as long as it is not some insanely low bitrate which doesn't compress well.
That may be what its intended. But 5 -> 3 is a world apart from 5 -> 5.95. One is consumer friendly (and groundbreaking information theory) and the other is just about reducing margins while pretending to be consumer friendly.
