NVIDIA GeForce GPUs now support up to 8 concurrent encoding sessions

[arche 177]

With everything I've had going on in the last few years, I have been always patching my card to allow more encoding sessions. I then stumbled on information that I didn't have to anymore if I'm not planning on doing more than 8 encoding sessions at a time.

Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix

Has this been verified by anyone? I haven't had alot of time to look at my server lately to verify.

I apologize if this has already been discussed here, I'm still a long way off catching up on things. Hopefully, I can finally get caught up. Again, I apologize if this has been talked about already, I didn't see anything posted about it, or just blind.

[Luke 42077]

8, wow. It wasn't that long ago that 2 was all they could handle.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Nope believe you are the first to bring it up as all that info use to say 2.  Never heard of the change from 2 to 3 then 5 and now 8.

NVIDIA GeForce GPUs now support up to 8 concurrent NVENC encoding sessions - VideoCardz.com

From January 2024 onwards, 8 simultaneous encoding video streams became the baseline (wikipedia)

I guess they saw everyone hacking/patching the cards and decided to do it for them.

[RanmaCanada 494]

Ah Nvidia has realized they can't beat the driver hackers when they limit something purely in software.  It should be unlimited, but then they would not be able to sell their overpriced quadros. This is great!

[Jdiesel 1431]

I never tried the unlock hack previously but weren't they ultimately limited by the amount of vram available? The matrix shows some older lower end cards i.e. gtx 960/1050 as supporting 8 encodes. I wonder what the minimum acceptable card is that can actually achieve 8 encodes in a real world application is?

 

I have always used Intel CPUs for quicksync but after the degradation debacle I will be moving over to AMD for my next upgrade. Having more Nvidia GPU options for transcoding will be nice, although Intel GPUs still look attractive.

Edited September 4, 2024 by Jdiesel

[RanmaCanada 494]

Yes they are limited by their memory. 12th gen is still safe from what I've read, it's the 13-14th gen that are affected. Yes it's "older" but the ASICS are the same so you still get what you want.

[matsonjr 6]

Just now seeing this...that's cool.  I did the driver adjustment frequently.  Assuming it works for my 1080ti, eight is more than enough for me.  I'll run out of network bandwidth or TVs first before I hit eight uses or a vram problem.