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Double your video encoding speeds!

Or triple, or more! All you need is a little parallelization, and an expensive graphics card, or multiple cards. Yeah, it’s not for everyone, but if you happen to have the hardware already, why not get the most out of it that you can? What you...

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Nvidia RTX 5090 Video Encoding – First Look

This is going to be a very quick look at the 9th generation HEVC NVENC encoding engine found on the Nvidia’s flagship RTX 5090 compared to 8th generation found on a RTX 4080 Super. Encoding Only For this test we are only going to be looking...

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AMD improves video encoding yet again! This time with Pre-Analysis

AMD made some impressive quality jumps a few months ago when they re-introduced B-frames to their H.264/AVC hardware encoder. Now they went and did it again with AMF 1.4.26 by adding temporal Pre-Analysis, which detects scene changes and can better insert index frames where needed. While...

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AMD Re-introduces the B-frame!

We all know how import the B-frame can be for video encoding. At the launch of RDNA2 AMD promised to add it back into their Hardware Encoders for H.264, and finally on March 17th they did just that! The question is, will it actually make a...

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