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Buying a GPU for Hardware Encoding X265

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Hi so planning next pc build and I realized that because of the amount of anime and video that I file through trying to make sure I'm not blowing the bank on storage I convert the most that I can to h.265 cause you know better file sizes. I was going to basically rebuild the internals of my pc once "Big Navi" hits (Hopefully it's the winner we need it to be) and I was looking over stuff about how I could improve that. I more want the best times that I can get and was wondering what was the most efficient for this? I saw stuff about the amd encoder being a mess or something and in my experience with nvenc on a 1080 it's been pretty swell (taking a 20ish minute endeavor down to about 2-3 minutes on a r5 2600 on the same 1.4gb BC episode).

 

tldr: What's an efficient supplementary gpu to get for video encoding that's more focused on fast render on x265 times but still retains quality on the somewhat cheap? 

If something can beat my 1080 I'll be happy, then again I would also love to save space in my machine!

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5 minutes ago, GrandKei said:

What's an efficient supplementary gpu to get for video encoding that's more focused on fast render on x265 times but still retains quality on the somewhat cheap? 

If something can beat my 1080 I'll be happy, then again I would also love to save space in my machine!

The newest NVENC obviously produces the best quality and GTX1660 is the cheapest GPU at the moment that has the newest NVENC. GTX1650 has the previous-gen one, not the latest one.

 

Also, I do have to point out that x265 is the specific encoder. The codec itself is called H.265, not x265.

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1 minute ago, WereCatf said:

The newest NVENC obviously produces the best quality and GTX1660 is the cheapest GPU at the moment that has the newest NVENC. GTX1650 has the previous-gen one, not the latest one.

OK, quality question answered, thank you, I believe I knew that. But could it encoder the video any faster? It's not like I'm capping either of the things out entirely with bandwidth. It's just 1-2 1080p streams

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Just now, GrandKei said:

But could it encoder the video any faster?

I don't know, I don't have one. Most likely it'd be about the same speed.

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