av1 encoding

AMD’s accelerating work on ROCm and its media engine is changing the GPU buying conversation in ways that have little to do with frame rates, ray tracing, or upscaling quality. For Windows users who run local AI models, develop GPU-accelerated software, stream, record video, or simply want a...

Microsoft engineers merged an initial Mesa 26.2 implementation on July 6, 2026 that enables prototype GPU-accelerated AV1 video encoding on Windows through DirectX 12 and Hardware Media Foundation Transform support, primarily to advance Windows Subsystem for Linux media acceleration. The change...

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4070 launched for desktop PCs on April 13, 2023, at a $599 U.S. starting price, bringing Ada Lovelace, DLSS 3 frame generation, AV1 encoding, 12GB of GDDR6X memory, and a 200-watt board-power target to the company’s upper-midrange gaming lineup. Three years later, its...

If you buy one new component in 2026, make it a balanced one: a modern multi‑core CPU with strong single‑thread boost, 32 GB of fast system memory for serious multitasking, a PCIe/NVMe SSD for the OS and active projects, and a GPU that supports hardware AV1 encoding and at least 8 GB of VRAM —...