GPUs Practice Reviews

NVIDIA NvEnc vs. CPU encoding: Can the video encoder of the Turing cards be used for twitch streaming and keep up with a CPU? Analysis with Netflix VMAF

This render scene is characterized by many fast pans. NVENC scores significantly better than medium with 98.13 points. All presets provide a very good image quality.

NVENC also reaches the peak value for this camera recording, the x.264 presets deliver almost identical VMAF values except for veryfast, which, at 67.18 points, scores significantly worse than faster.

For this camera shot, medium performs best. Veryfast is by far the worst performer with 49.27 points. At veryfast you can see clear artifacts. NVENC lies behind faster for the first time with 57.61 points. Overall, the quality of the degraded videos is rather poor.

 

In this camera recording NVENC clearly stands out from the x264 presets. The overall picture quality is good.

Also in this camera shot NVENC achieves the best value. The overall picture quality is very good.

Nvidia’s NVENC performs better than x264 medium in eight of eleven sequences. The values of medium, fast and veryfast are very close together and veryfast gives significantly worse results in all cases. Thus, a comparison of NVENC with x264 medium is reasonable from a qualitative point of view. If we look at the evaluation of the VMAF results, we can see that NVENC performs exceptionally well and even surpasses H.264 medium in quality. Medium, fast and faster have very similar scores, veryfast is with a value of 75.41 qualitatively clearly worse, you can see clear artifacts in the visual test. 

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