AV1 recording

[StephanTW]

so with OBS recently adding support for 2 styles of AV1 recording (SVT and AOM), i went diggin into what it was and who can encode it.
And i found that there is a bunch of commercial providers, but that potentially only the new ARC gpu's from Intel have encoding available.
So my question is is that really the only "available" GPU that has AV1 encoding?
And if not are there any data on how well other GPU's encode the AV1 standard.
 

[WereCat]

3 minutes ago, StephanTW said:

so with OBS recently adding support for 2 styles of AV1 recording (SVT and AOM), i went diggin into what it was and who can encode it.
And i found that there is a bunch of commercial providers, but that potentially only the new ARC gpu's from Intel have encoding available.
So my question is is that really the only "available" GPU that has AV1 encoding?
And if not are there any data on how well other GPU's encode the AV1 standard.
 

The Intel ARC will be the first commercially available GPU with HW accelerated encoding. 

 

 

Currently you can only use CPU for SW based encoding which is extremely slow and not suited for real time encoding even with the most powerful CPUs at settings that make sense. 

 

SVT has better quality because of bigger compression but is also quite a bit more demanding than AOM at least from what I tried months back. 

 

Also check this for more info 

 

[StephanTW]

3 minutes ago, WereCat said:

The Intel ARC will be the first commercially available GPU with HW accelerated encoding. 

 

 

Currently you can only use CPU for SW based encoding which is extremely slow and not suited for real time encoding even with the most powerful CPUs at settings that make sense. 

 

SVT has better quality because of bigger compression but is also quite a bit more demanding than AOM at least from what I tried months back. 

 

Also check this for more info 

well here is hoping new gen amd and nvidea will also have it.

I tried using my CPU for a test recording but it just came out without video, i must be missing something to have the CPU actually render.

Yeah did find that video prior but it was mostly just about the av1 standard and how people are adopting it as oppose to what can drive it.

certainly hope that when new gen amd and nvidea GPU's come out with AV1 encoding support there will be a comparison, seeing as most streaming sites are now in the planning to allow AV1 as input. be intersting if amd can pull ahead or equal this time around

[WereCat]

1 minute ago, StephanTW said:

well here is hoping new gen amd and nvidea will also have it.

I tried using my CPU for a test recording but it just came out without video, i must be missing something to have the CPU actually render.

Yeah did find that video prior but it was mostly just about the av1 standard and how people are adopting it as oppose to what can drive it.

certainly hope that when new gen amd and nvidea GPU's come out with AV1 encoding support there will be a comparison, seeing as most streaming sites are now in the planning to allow AV1 as input. be intersting if amd can pull ahead or equal this time around

I was expecting that both the RTX 3000 series and RDNA2 will have AV1 encode but I was disappointed when they only announced decode. 

 

At least now they are somewhat forced to work on that since I'm expecting that ARC will sell like hot cakes just for AV1 encode alone. 

[StephanTW]

Just now, WereCat said:

At least now they are somewhat forced to work on that since I'm expecting that ARC will sell like hot cakes just for AV1 encode alone. 

now here is hoping that the limited edition just mean limited from intel supply only and the rest is made by boardpartners XD