It does not in fact market itself for encoding and deconding 8K footage. They market it as being able to “work with more streams of 4K and 8K ProRes video”. A

It does not in fact market itself for encoding and deconding 8K footage. They market it as being able to “work with more streams of 4K and 8K ProRes video”. And all of the benchmarks are with respect to transcoding, and only 4K media not 8K.