General questions or discussion about HandBrake, Video and/or audio transcoding, trends etc.
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purduephotog
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by purduephotog » Mon Jun 24, 2019 4:02 am
AMD Radeon 56- during encoding only memory clock shows activity
Not a problem. During Hardware (AMD VCE / H.265 the memory clock ramps up to 800mhz, but the GPU clock sits idle at 38mhz.
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Windows 10
It's really not a 'problem' I just don't know what's 'standard' for this software during encoding.
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BradleyS
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by BradleyS » Mon Jun 24, 2019 10:47 am
VCE is a separate ASIC chip on your graphics card. The GPU processor is not used directly.
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purduephotog
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by purduephotog » Fri Jul 05, 2019 12:03 am
BradleyS wrote: ↑Mon Jun 24, 2019 10:47 am
VCE is a separate ASIC chip on your graphics card. The GPU processor is not used directly.
Oh. Sigh. So all that beautiful floating point isn't used. OK... explains why the heat load was low.
Thank you. I guess I've gotta go Intel

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by BradleyS » Fri Jul 05, 2019 12:31 am
Intel QSV is also an ASIC.

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Rodeo
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by Rodeo » Fri Jul 05, 2019 2:22 am
Video encoding is not parallel enough to be worth encoding on the GPU itself. GPU encoders (implemented in CUDA etc. and running on the GPU itself) are a thing of the past, the tradeoffs they made to achieve the encoding speed people expected had a significant negative effect on compression efficiency (not to mention it would impact graphical performance of other apps while encoding).
Modern hardware-accelerated encoders may not be the most efficient out there (in terms of compression) but are still significantly better than the old generation.