The benchmarks below show you need very powerful machines to get software encoding up to the sort of frame rates that hardware encoding will give you even on lo

The benchmarks below show you need very powerful machines to get software encoding up to the sort of frame rates that hardware encoding will give you even on low end CPU/GPU combinations. Even given the numbers in the benchmarks below I think the cheapest of Intel cards are going to make alot more sense than using the CPU of some honking great machine to do software av1 conversions. As usual with benchmarks it takes some effort to understand what they mean. Trying to get some tangible information into it with minimal effort: Some benchmarks - use the dropdown to choose different preset/resolution combinations. SVT-AV1 V2.1 Encoder Mode: Preset 13 - Input: Bosphorus 1080p https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/svt-av1&eval=0a8013353397457951acce4684a0eb9de59394b6#metrics https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/svt-av1&eval=0a8013353... Encoder Mode: Preset 5 - Input: Bosphorus 1080p https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/svt-av1&eval=a618cfc70800077ac726f38ddc690c277a0e8cab#metrics https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/svt-av1&eval=a618cfc70... AOM AV1 3.9 Encoder Mode: Speed 11 Realtime - Input: Bosphorus 1080p https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/aom-av1&eval=70043aa1fb1d36f059760644430886457221ce8e#metrics https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/aom-av1&eval=70043aa1f... Encoder Mode: Speed 6 Realtime - Input: Bosphorus 1080p https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/aom-av1&eval=fab03cd00396a07304242e12150238169702fed8#metrics https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/aom-av1&eval=fab03cd00... Encoder Mode: Speed 6 Two-Pass - Input: Bosphorus 1080p https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/aom-av1&eval=fab03cd00396a07304242e12150238169702fed8#metrics https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/aom-av1&eval=fab03cd00...