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nVidia’s range of cards ship with dedicated hardware encoders; anything from the last half-decade can encode h264, and the 2000 and 3000 series cards can do h26
by ascagnel_ 6y ago
nVidia’s range of cards ship with dedicated hardware encoders; anything from the last half-decade can encode h264, and the 2000 and 3000 series cards can do h265 fast enough that a 4K stream renders frames and transmits across my local network (over ethernet) in less than 16ms. I’m not sure if AMD is shipping similar hardware.
- ReactiveJelly 6y agoBut how many streams per card? It must be pricey to keep a high-end GPU tied up for one user.
- fxtentacle 6y agoRoughly $1.5 per GPU per hour. For enterprise presentations, that's negligible compared to salaries.
- meheleventyone 6y agoYou’re going to need that anyway to render the game in the first place.
- ascagnel_ 6y agoOne stream per card, as far as I'm aware; however, given that we're talking about streaming more demanding games, you'd need dedicated hardware for running the game as well. I think nVidia built NVENC with an eye towards their own streaming service (GeForceNow), with an earlier version (GameStream, which lets you stream locally to a Shield device) as a test-bed.