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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NVIDIA has made a quiet yet significant update to its consumer GeForce graphics processing units (GPUs) by removing video encoding limitations. These GPUs can now encode up to five simultaneous ...

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.