GTX 1650's NVENC support

[Jurrunio]

Just came across this bit of information, thought I'd give everyone here a heads up. Yes it's not in the news subforums because I dont want to follow all the formats and stuff

 

https://www.coolaler.com/threads/gtx-1650-nvenc-turing.355272/?fbclid=IwAR22wI7r8R2hQODAgDtY5Ar97LQjYyIk_zPeTp8VxPSpXgV_Si_y7hMSglY

 

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Despite being Turing based, GTX 1650's NVENC implementation is actually based on Volta. That's the 5th gen design also used on Pascal, rather than Turing's 6th gen. When Nvidia was asked (through Nvidia Streaming account) in Twitter, it's confirmed that Volta NVENC = Pascal NVENC, so it doesn't have the 15% performance advantage and reduced artifacting on the rest of the Turing cards currently available.

So yes, just because you paid more for a GTX card doesn't mean you're getting the full up-to-dat\e Geforce Experience feature set. Just so I thought this bullshit will end when you leave the GT cards...Pascal's NVENC imo is only good for giving examples on how to get things done, not to record enjoyable content. The quality just isn't good enough even if you can forego compression.

[DrMacintosh]

Another reason just to get an RX 570

[Araho]

This makes me extra glad I ordered an RTX 2070 for the new build - with the main use case being live video ingest and storage, the improved NVENC will be very nice to have.

[WereCatf]

3 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

Pascal's NVENC imo is only good for giving examples on how to get things done, not to record enjoyable content. The quality just isn't good enough even if you can forego compression.

Personally, I disagree. I use it for streaming to Twitch and for local recordings and, IMHO, it's perfectly fine.