very bad quality with the amd VCE encoder

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seorimpaek
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very bad quality with the amd VCE encoder

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Description of problem or question:
I just tried out the amd hardware encoder with my rx580. While it was about twice as fast, it was less than half the quality. A 12 minute h.264 1080p video was reduced to 305MB, which was confusing, because the x264 software encoder produced a 190MB file. When I compared the footage, I at least expected the 305MB file to be better. But compared to the software encode, detailed textures were noticeably worse. You could see that the textures were just smushed into a uniform cake. The software encode was much better.

Am I the only one who got this kind of result? Is it AMD or handbrake at fault? And would nvenc provide better quality? It kind of sucks because I have quite a few videos to transcode.

Thank y'all for the help


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windows 10 pro


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Re: very bad quality with the amd VCE encoder

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seorimpaek wrote: Thu Feb 13, 2020 8:24 am Description of problem or question:
I just tried out the amd hardware encoder with my rx580. While it was about twice as fast, it was less than half the quality. A 12 minute h.264 1080p video was reduced to 305MB, which was confusing, because the x264 software encoder produced a 190MB file. When I compared the footage, I at least expected the 305MB file to be better. But compared to the software encode, detailed textures were noticeably worse. You could see that the textures were just smushed into a uniform cake. The software encode was much better.

Am I the only one who got this kind of result? Is it AMD or handbrake at fault? And would nvenc provide better quality? It kind of sucks because I have quite a few videos to transcode.

Thank y'all for the help
That's all correct and typical of my experience with hardware QSV encoders. If I run RF 20 on software x264, I find that CQ /RF 13-14 hardware is reasonable quality, but still not quite there.
mduell
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Re: very bad quality with the amd VCE encoder

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1) The hardware encoders are generally garbage.
2) AMDs is the worst of the hardware encoders.

VCE is fast, it's not efficient. So you're either going to end up with large files or low quality.
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