Ars Technica

Why are there no video encode/decode cards on the market?

I dunno, I thought this would be something that would make sense, but maybe there's no market need? For a lot of users, there's no real need for a full fat graphics card: what they really need are the ...
PC Gamer

Intel Arc GPUs will support AV1 encode and decode

The world of video codecs can be a confusing one. Popular codecs including HEVC (H.265) and AVC (H.264) are widely supported, and will be familiar to streamers. But there's another codec that gaining ...
Ars Technica

Utility to report GPU capabilities wrt video encode/decode?

Does a utility exist that will query the installed GPU and report whether it supports hardware-accelerated encode and decode of h.264, h.265, etc? Because googling an AMD part number and trying to ...
Macworld

Apple confirms the M2 Max actually is twice as fast as the M2 Pro

When the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros landed earlier this week, there was some confusion on the spec sheet regarding the number of encoding engines on the M2 Max. Apple has cleared things up—the ...