AMD AV1 Encode RX 7900 GPU cards

[tom95521]

The new RX 7000 series GPUs will support AV1 encode. I think this is the first GPU chiplet design with both 5 nm and 6 nm chips.  One chip has 20GB or more of fast DDR6 memory. Also support 8K monitors at 60 fps or higher. It will be interesting to see a performance comparison with the Nvidia RTX 4090. The power required (350W+) is probably 5 times as much as my Mac mini M1 computer.

I can remember years ago when PTE was relatively new and the GPUs back then only had 256 MB of memory. I hope when AV1 is more common then PTE will have an AV1 HW encode option. Most of the software encoders I have tried are slow.

https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/rdna

Tom

 

[Igor]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for this interesting info regardig HW AV1 encoder.

P.S. When first version of PTE was released, the most powerful graphics card from NVIDIA had only 32 MB of graphics memory. MB not GB