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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm unfortunately stuck with Nvidia for the time-being because I need NVENC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What does NVENC do that VAAPI doesn’t?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Speed. Unfortunately (at least the last time I looked into it) NVENC still beats the socks off of VAAPI in render times and I'm sure Nvidia likes it that way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Isn’t that only on NVIDIA cards?