Yeah, hardware encoding is very new, but you can get an Intel Arc 700-series card and get it via QuickSync for pretty cheap if you have a spare x16 slot and really, really need it right now. Only those, Nvidia’s 4000 series, and AMD’s 7000 series support encode. 3000 and 6000 series for each company support hardware decode, though.
Just need to get phones on the hardware decode train! Qualcomm and Apple, step up your game!
What settings have you been using? I haven’t noticed any issues so long as I’m not concerned with real-time encoding. And yeah, GPU encoding is generally worse than software, it’s just usually way faster.
EDIT: for reference I’ve been using speed 6 and an RF between 40 and 30, and even in fast-paced scenes like ones in “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” I can’t notice anything super off. With my real-time recordings best I can do is speed 7 and 6000kbps (maybe higher bitrate), which isn’t quite enough for the 1080p60 fast, colorful gameplay of Splatoon 3 - but even then, I’d need a decently higher bitrate with either x264 or x265, especially GPU encoded.
IDK his exact settings, but a fur I follow on Mastodon has been able to get 4K Blu-ray rips encoded to AV1 down to a handful of gigabytes, and he reports no noticeable quality problems at speed 6 RF 30.
Framework has been and likely always will be for the crowd that values repairability and reusability over any price/performance ratio. Being able to shove any GPU you could want (that’s beem built for this) into that special slot is very neat, and pretty useful for the people who want to be able to upgrade their GPU separately from the rest of their system.
It’s like getting the LEGO bricks from PC building into a laptop form factor - you can choose your IO, RAM and SSD, even your CPU. And now your choice of dedicated GPU. For a specific person, that’s worth it.
If space is at a premium, or you routinely travel and wanna game, having a capable laptop that you can upgrade each individual part as needed becomes pretty darn tempting. If I had need for a laptop and had that routine travel thing, I’d honestly think about it myself. I could upgrade whatever part I want whenever I need to, and I can make old mainboards run home stuff or whatever. Turn an old one into a media player, or as a small PC for some other use.
Mmhm. Suuure they will. I see no way in which this power could be abused at all. Clearly this is a harmless ability to snoop in on people without their consent.
Honestly, to nobody’s surprise. At least for the people who don’t have a blind hate for GLAAD and/or queer people, this will be a nice thing to pull up as proof of how hostile Twitter has gotten.
Been blocking way more people in the last few months than ever before.
ah yeah, the EU sadly doesn’t get as many deals as we do in the States :/ 6800’s still a steal though! I love mine though I should’ve double checked dimensions. It barely fits in my current case xD
I run the 6800 now, and while I can’t comment on Linux, ROCm, etc. it’s a totally solid card for 1440p - though I don’t play the latest AAA titles, I finally get good frames at higher graphical settings in Planet Coaster. The 6800, 6800XT, 6900XT, and 6950XT are all in vaguely the same region of performance, mostly because they all have 16GB VRAM so it’s all down to the number of CUs and clock rates.
If you do need every drop of power, you can snag an XFX 6950XT for ~$630 before tax if your case is big enough and power supply capable enough. I’d really only consider the 6950 if you’re playing the latest AAA titles on ultrawide 1440p or 4K, though. Otherwise, you can grab either 6800 for up to a hundred less than the linked 6950, get plenty of VRAM and solid raster performance for a long while. The 6000 series has gotten the classic AMD Fine WineTM treatment, they aged pretty good all things considered.
I, too, have only been using Handbrake because idk what else to use, so I’ve been limited to SVT-AV1 for encoding. I’d need to watch through stuff at length, but at speed 6 and quality 40 I personally don’t notice anything super off in my 1080p Blu-ray rip of The Last Wish (and got it down to an incredible 1.5GB). I definitely didn’t catch anything at speed 6 and quality 30 - it won’t be as small, and it’ll still take a while, but at that I personally saw like. no problems whatsoever.
Might need to watch out for any film grain though, idk how much that mucks with the process but there are settings to denoise and reapply on playback. I haven’t experimented with them too much because a) handbrake, and b) was trying to find good settings on a movie without grain to start.
I mostly saw problems when I used AOM-AV1 for encoding, at speed 7 and 6000kbps. That was purely because real-time encoding was why I needed that and it just wasn’t quite perfect for 1080p60 Splatoon clips, mostly also as a test for “if Twitch turned AV1 on tomorrow what could I get at their current limits.” SVT instantly got overloaded for real time at any real-time speed for some reason.