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"Shadowplay" Coming to AMD GPUs Courtesy of RadeonPro

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On-the-fly recording of footage with an H.264 encoder is coming to AMD GPUs with the upcoming "infinity" RadeonPro version. It leverages the VCE (Video Codec Engine) built in to HD 7000 and higher graphics cards (article on the VCE on anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5261/amd-radeon-hd-7970-review/9). The ingame FPS will not be locked to the recorded frame-rate.

 

http://www.radeonpro.info/2013/08/get-ready-for-new-radeonpro-infinity/

 

The article was posted on the RadeonPro website in August, but I couldn't find any mention of H.264 video recording with AMD GPUs.

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I hope this is true, would be nice to have a go at recording some gameplay.

 

Indeed, I've been feeling a bit jealous of nVIdia users since their recording thing was released. In particular in MMOs, putting any kind of load on the CPU like Fraps does can kill my framerate.

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waaaa AMD's GPUs have build in h264 encodes

how could i have missed that

I was just about to say that. If it offers close to or the same quality as QuickSync in full mode then that's awesome.

By the way, anyone with an Intel CPU that supports QuickSync (like the i5-2500K for example) can use its onboard H.264 encoder to record video without any performance impact. The drawback is that not many programs supports it yet, but RivaTuner does (just barely).

How is performance of RadeonPro anyway? Is it based on CCC or are they based on the open source drivers?

 

Kind of off-topic but damn that website is awful. Who thought it would be a good idea to put white text on a gray background? It is really difficult to read.

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that would be hilarious 

 

That would indeed be both hilarious and awesome.

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Imagine if a hack or work-around could be done to allow nVidia Shield streaming via Radeon cards.. ;)

if this happened I'd probably consider getting a shield.

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Still wondering why the guy that made RadeonPro isn't head of AMD's driver division, given that he single-handedly solved their frame rating issues half a year before they acknowledged it was an issue, introduced real frame pacing at least a year before nVidia did, and is giving us accelerated video encoding.

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Are they talking about graphics cards or APUs here?

Both, I think. I believe all the A10 APUs use Radeon 8000D graphics (and it states Radeon 7000+).

If it doesn't work on APUs, it's just as good. I don't know what you plan on recording on your APU..

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Are they talking about graphics cards or APUs here?

Think its both.

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waaaa AMD's GPUs have build in h264 encodes

how could i have missed that

this has been around for years.

Quality hasn't been spectacular though.

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this has been around for years.

Quality hasn't been spectacular though.

 

Up until now, there has been hardly any software supporting it.

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this has been around for years.

Quality hasn't been spectacular though.

i thought the 7xxx cards used OpenCL/GPGPU to encode H264  just like the cards before them

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Good job AMD now give us a complete Mantle demo. You can hold off on the R-Sync until you can make it a standard and shove it in NVIDIA's face.

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Ok now I am exited !!!

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Then this means that nvidia shield is also possible considering the h264 encoder

Finally my Santa hat doesn't look out of place

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Damn. I just bought a 780, and shadowplay was one of the things that sold it to me.

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Still wondering why the guy that made RadeonPro isn't head of AMD's driver division, given that he single-handedly solved their frame rating issues half a year before they acknowledged it was an issue, introduced real frame pacing at least a year before nVidia did, and is giving us accelerated video encoding.

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