AMD's RX 6000 series GPUs will feature AV1 Hardware Acceleration - Microsoft Confirms

[WYP]

AV1 offers a 50% increase in compression over H.264 with no loss in quality.



Read more about AMD's RX 6000 series GPUs supporting AV1 decoding.

 

[looz]

Same as Ampere then - only decoding.


But even that is great news.

 

[WYP]

Same as Ampere then - only decoding.


But even that is great news.

It's a step in the right direction. TBH, decoding matters a lot more than encoding for the mass market. AV1 encoding will only matter when places like Twitch start to fully support it.

 

[Tripp]

Tbh AMD need to up their game with the encoding they do, its noticeably inferior to Nvidia with streaming