NVIDIA Unlocks More Video Encoding Capabilities On Its GeForce GPUs Dating Back To Maxwell
NVIDIA recently relaxed some video encoding limitations it had on its GeForce GPU lineup which have now been unlocked.
NVIDIA GeForce GPUs had a limitation lifted from most GPU families, tracing back to the Maxwell generation. These limitations have silently been removed by NVIDIA and now allow for increased video encoding for up to five streams simultaneously. While streaming up to five streams at once seems unreal, this step towards easing down software limitations, especially for consumer-based graphics cards, has now opened up further accessibility that was once closed off.
NVIDIA's NVENC encoding and decoding were limited to some degree by the company on GeForce GPUs, whereas the data center and enterprise-level graphics cards do not have the same limitations. The limitation could be lifted by using external software to patch the NVENC/NVDEC codecs for increased streams. As of March 18th, NVIDIA has increased the streams to five simultaneously.
Prior to this update, NVIDIA's GeForce GPUs could only process up to three streams simultaneously but the new enhancement adds two more streams to the encoder, as reported by the NVIDIA Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix.
The current generations allowed for the increased stream encoding range from the company's second-generation Maxwell, Pascal, Turing, Ampere, and the current Ada Lovelace graphics architectures except for the MX-series (MX110, MX230, MX130, MX150, MX250, MX330, MX350, and MX450), which are known for media playbacks, such as HD video, and Adobe Flash games (during the Macromedia generation of Flash). Also, the NVIDIA GT 1030 GPU is not supported. However, the new list has GPUs from the last eight years.
One interesting note in the NVENC and NVDEC tables
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