#Quicksync vs x264 obs mp4#
#Quicksync vs x264 obs software#

#Quicksync vs x264 obs software#

It'd probably be very fair to say that these software encoder solutions can create better encodes compared to QSV or NVENC, especially at the lower bit rates, with the very best probably being the X264 & X265 video encoding engines.

There are a number of software encoders available, some of which that are extremely good at encoding very high quality H.265 or H.264 video files. What I mean by pure software, or software only, is a codec, or a specific encoder's codec, that will do all the encoding just with the CPU and not utilise any CPU iGPU like Quick Sync QSV or the AMD equivelent or a dedicated GPU such as those by Nvidia or AMD. With the addition of 4K and high frame rates in the equation, it really does compound the technical difficulties and system processing requirements that are needed for encoding and generally any type of work where H.265 is part of the production workflow.Īnother thing to bear in mind here is that there are also pure software encoding option for H.264 and H.265. To make matters worse for both codecs, 4K also has to be factored into the equation and quite often up to frame rates of 60FPS and beyond. Which basically means that H.265 requires more in the way of raw CPU and/or GPU processing power. Despite the similarities, H.265 creates even more drain on your system's resources compared to the already difficult to decode/encode/process H.264. This is mostly due to the complexity of an inter-frame codec, which both H.264 and H.265 are. Just like H.264 before it, H.265, or HEVC, is very taxing on your CPU and/or your GPU for both decoding and encoding. But in this instance I'm just concentrating on the task of video encoding within Handbrake. In the broader scheme of things they can both be used for rendering, decoding, filters and basically fairly much whatever video post processing acceleration and assistance duties that software writers account for within their video post production software and products. They are both capable of lending themselves to other video post applications. Although both Quick Sync and NVENC are usually just referred to as video encoders. This test can also been seen as Intel versus NVIDIA, or more precisely, Intel's Quick Sync video encoding technology versus NVIDIA's NVENC video encoding technology. While both NVENC and Quick Sync Video QSV are both faster than software only, one of them is definitely faster than the other.

#Quicksync vs x264 obs mp4#

So what is faster at encoding 4K MP4 H.265 HEVC video files in Handbrake, Intel Quick Sync via the i9 9900K CPU or NVENC via the Nvidia RTX 2080 TI GPU graphics card? Handbrake 4K H.265 video encoder speed test - NVENC v Quick Sync QSV - Intel i9 9900K vs RTX 2080 TI I'll be posting some videos soon about building the best sub $1000/£1000 computer for Edius, more so Edius 9. Below the video is some boring details from the YouTube description. This video may be interesting to those who encode externally for H.265 from their Edius masters, in this case HQX.