With the Intel Arc Graphics, AMD Radeon RX 7000 series, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series, GPU-accelerated AV1 encoding is now widely available for this royalty-free video codec that is becoming more ...

Back during the GTX680 launch (March 2012), Anandtech ran a few tests with the only compatible software available, Cyberlink Mediaespresso. Testing against Intel-Qucksync, Anand found NVENC to be ...

OBS Studio, a popular video streaming software suite, has updated to version 28.1, bringing support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40-series Ada GPUs and hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding. This makes use of ...

NVENC is just a hardware encoder block that has been on NV chips for a while, with incremental performance and codec support improvements on each new hardware platform. NVENC is very fast but the ...

Cinegy has announced the release of a new version of its Cinecoder video codec SDK, solving a fundamental problem for TV and broadcast industries. The H.264 interlace video format is globally used for ...

In brief: Intel has had a rough time launching its freshman series of dedicated graphics cards, struggling to get them to consumers on time and possibly with unimpressive results in gaming benchmarks.