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    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Dr. AMK, Jul 4, 2017.

  1. yrekabakery

    yrekabakery Notebook Virtuoso

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    Once again, the comparisons in the video were done at 3.5K, 6K, and 8K, NvENC vs. x264 Very Fast/Fast/Medium. NvENC was consistently equal or better quality than the Medium preset at the different bitrates. You can download the source files from his Google Drive link in the description and compare using your own eyes. He also mentioned that Pascal NvENC was equal in quality to x264 Very Fast, which looks signifcantly worse than Medium, so there’s that.
     
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    Blunty says the same things I've said - reviewers parroting Nvidia BS, and he tests it and discovers it's nothing, just more Nvidia BS...

    RTX 2080 vs GTX 1080 vs CPU - For Streaming
    Blunty
    Published on Oct 13, 2018
    Is the RTX 20xx series h.264 encoder even better at encoding video at low bitrates for streaming?
    Gigabyte RTX 2080 Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUQR8...
    BEST SETTINGS - OBS (+ others) - CPU vs GPU Video Encoding… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfPm5...
    GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming OC 8GB https://amzn.to/2pR3zvZ
    GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming OC 11GB https://amzn.to/2ITypN5


    Charbax 3 months ago
    "That was very blunt."

    Nich Gregory 2 months ago
    "Charbax good to be blunt. saves us money"

    Cliché as F 3 months ago
    "Yeah I heard the 20 series could encode the same quality as the fast preset on CPU but yeah I think I'll keep CPU encoding"

    Western Gents United 3 months ago
    "Thanks for this video, glad someone tested it"

    SamahLama 3 months ago
    "Lol Linus said the NEW NVEC was as good as x264 fast(?). Thanks for actually doing the testing."

    soccergirlx20 1 month ago
    "I was thinking about doing the EVGA step up program from a 1080 to a 2080. This video made me do more research, and realize that was bonkers. Thanks for your honest review!"

    GPU vs. CPU Video Encoding -- Is RTX NVENC or X264 BETTER?
    VentureBeat
    Check out his closing comments starting @ 05:50:
    Published on Oct 13, 2018
    Nvidia has updated its NVENC video encoder with its RTX cards. How does it compare to software encoding with X264 on CPU at 6 Mbps, and which should you use if you're livestreaming to Twitch?


    rene 1337 3 months ago
    "the video has many misleading information, someone could think now he gets a better image quality with nvenc and buys a rtx card..."

    VentureBeat 3 months ago
    " To be fair, I explicitly say not to buy an RTX card for NVENC. That would be a poor reason to get one of those cards...."
     
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    hmscott Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yeah, I doubt Nvidia is gonna release GTX 20 series GPU's, as they would need to be whole new layout's, or stupidly they could disable the RTX features and sell the RTX dies as GTX GPU's... man how desperate would Nvidia need to be to do that?

    Probably as desperate as Nvidia appears opening up FreeSync support. Even with all the Nvidia BS putting shade on FreeSync, it's still AMD's invention that was accepted as the VESA Standard for Adaptive-Sync, and Nvidia is the one that failed to deliver wide-spread adoption of Gsync.

    Nvidia still hasn't learned to be nice and play well with others. ;)
     
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    hmscott Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Good news. :)

    AMD's Initial Production Run of Radeon VII Just 5,000 Pieces, Company Denies it
    by btarunr Today, 07:32 Discuss (43 Comments)
    https://www.techpowerup.com/251577/...adeon-vii-just-5-000-pieces-company-denies-it

    " AMD posted a swift denial to both pieces of news, the size of its production run and the product's profitability.

    In a statement to MyDrivers, AMD said (translated): "We will not release production figures, but when released on February 7, AMD.com official website and AIB vendor partners will have products on sale, and we expect the supply of Radeon VII to meet the needs of gamers."

    FordGT90Concept
    "There is absolutely no way Radeon VII is priced below cost. They wouldn't bring it to market if that were the case (would have kept selling them as MI50).

    I get the distinct impression from the OP that there's a smear campaign in the works. All of these things said target lowering AMD's stock valuation."
     
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    hmscott, Jan 17, 2019
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    The RTX 2060 review is underway...

    Radeon RX 570 or GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, Who's The Budget King?
    Hardware Unboxed
    Published on Jan 17, 2019


    AMD RX 570 4GB vs Nvidia GTX 1050 ti 4GB
    PC Benchmarks
    Published on Jan 16, 2019
     
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  7. Robbo99999

    Robbo99999 Notebook Prophet

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    Well, I got a G-sync monitor, and I like that G-sync feature...it's a great gaming experience, so I'm happy with it - as it stands NVidia GPUs look like the ones to get both now & in the near future (the next gen) when it comes to performance, so even though my monitor is a "walled garden" (I have to choose NVidia), I don't regret it yet.
     
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    Well, Nvidia has opened up the whole rest of the world of monitors, FreeSync monitors, so your options are even larger now than that 1 monitor you own today.

    Maybe you'll find a nice FreeSync monitor that catches your eye, at a nice price, and maybe an AMD GPU down the road that hits all the right notes, and of course those soon to be awesome Zen 2 CPU's flooding consumer, professional, and DC's throughout 2019.

    Things change, options arise unexpectedly, and well, ya never know. :)

    Using Nvidia With Freesync - Does It Work Now?
    GearedInc
    Published on Jan 17, 2019
    Nvidia released a patch on January 15th that allows for Freesync monitors to work with their GPUs - I test both Pascal and Turing.
     
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    mitchega Notebook Consultant

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    Nvidia now supports FreeSync monitors - and we've put it to the test with 4K gaming across a range of titles, played out on a bargain basement Asus VP28U. Is it as good as G-Sync? No. Can good results be guaranteed on every FreeSync monitor? No. But our test display coped remarkably well!

     
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    Yeah, I'd definitely go AMD for a GPU at some point if they make some competetive products, but I won't go AMD until I decide to change my monitor as AMD will not work with a G-Sync monitor...well at least the G-sync part won't work is what I'm getting at.

    Yep, I've heard about NVidia offering G-sync now on Freesync monitors.
     
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    Research at NVIDIA: RMPflow - A Computational Graph for Automatic Motion Policy Generation
     
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    Dr. AMK Living with Hope

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    DEEP LEARNING & AI CONFERENCE SESSIONS
    ADVANCING THE FUTURE OF DEEP LEARNING AND AI
    NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) is the premier AI conference, offering hundreds of workshops, sessions, and keynotes hosted by organizations like Google, Amazon, Facebook as well as rising startups. GTC showcases the latest breakthroughs in AI training and inference, industry-changing technologies, and successful implementations from research to production.
    https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/gtc/topics/deep-learning-and-ai/
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