** Max resolution support is limited to selected Pascal chips ** Except GP100 (is limited to 4K resolution) NVENC enables streaming applications at high quality and ultra-low latency without utilizing the CPU, encoding at very high quality for archiving, OTT streaming, web videos, and encoding with ultra-low power consumption per stream (Watts/stream) For example, in a game recording and streaming scenario like streaming to using Open Broadcaster Software (OBS), encoding being completely offloaded to NVENC makes the graphics engine bandwidth fully available for game rendering.

With complete encoding (which is computationally complex) offloaded to NVENC, the graphics engine and the CPU are free for other operations. On Ada, multiple NVENC coupled with AV1 enables encoding 8k video at 60fps alongside a higher number of concurrent sessions. AV1 is the state of the art video coding format that supports higher quality with better performance compared to H.264 and HEVC. Introducing AV1 encoding with Video Codec SDK 12.0 on NVIDIA’s Ada architecture.

NVENC - Hardware-Accelerated Video Encoding

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