Nvidia Enable Nvenc

By gerardo delgado cabrera on march 26 2019.

Nvidia enable nvenc. Nvenc in the gtx 10 series gpus provides superior quality than x264 very fast the most commonly used x264 preset. This allows the encoder to dynamically select the number of b frames between 0 and the number of b frames you specify. You can tell if your card supports nvenc by its code name. I am considering to use ffmpeg for a project of mine and i.

Find your graphics card on the list of nvidia graphics processing units. Cards with code names starting with gk gm or gp do support nvenc technology. Separate from the cuda cores nvenc nvdec run encoding or decoding workloads without slowing the execution of graphics or cuda workloads running at the same time. Update your graphics card driver.

If you use windows xp or windows vista the h264 nvidia nvenc menu will not be shown. Nvidia gpus beginning with the kepler generation contain a hardware based encoder referred to as nvenc which provides fully accelerated hardware based video encoding and is independent of graphics performance. Check whether your gpu supports nvenc. Learn more geforce cards are not supported for nvenc dec sdks.

With complete encoding which is computationally complex offloaded to nvenc the graphics engine and the cpu are free for other operations. And in the new rtx 20 series nvenc performs better than x264 fast and on par with x264 medium a preset that requires an expensive dual pc setup. If you have a pascal based gpu the quality is now almost on par with cpu h. Nvidia nvenc is a hardware x264 encoder built into newer nvidia gpu s since 2012.

This guide will show you how to enable nvidia nvenc encoder. Nvidia gpus ship with an on chip hardware encoder and decoder unit often referred to as nvenc and nvdec. How to enable hardware encoding nvenc in obs overview the benefit of hardware encoding is that it reduces the load on your cpu by using a purpose built piece of hardware on your nvidia graphics card. Nvidia nvenc encoder is available in windows 7 8 and 10.