Originally posted by schmidtbag
View Post
Nvidia has had the dedicated encoding NVENC chip for years and I have used it with Pascal and with Maxwell and it works just fine, even on Linux via ffmpeg; Intel has had QS since Sandy Bridge, VCE has existed since the ATI 9600 Pro days (I remember using back then and being impressed with what it offered at the time).
I guarantee you that when the Ryzen apu's come out with the integrated Vega we'll be lucky to see one site do a half assed test of it's hardware encoder and it will be on Windows via Cyberlink's software,
If AMD squeezed their heads out of their collective asses and released a 6C/12T apu with Vega graphics, I would definitely buy one, but if not then I think I'll pick up a i5 8400 and do a proper encoding test myself.
Comment