Nvidia GTX 960 Encoding Performance vs Intel HD6400

Shaun_K wrote on 6/7/2018, 4:14 AM

I have a GTX960, and an Intel HD6400 (through my i7-4790 processor). I have tested in multiple ways to encode a project of mine using three methods: NVENC, Intel Quick Sync and just plain AVC. I have tested doing the encode while also changing the settings in Settings - Video - GPU Acceleration of Video processing.

I get the best performance (between 30% and 60% quicker) from the Intel HD6400. I would have expected the best performance to be from the GTX960. When I encode using the GTX960, it is barely hitting 10% usage in task manager (100% usage on the Intel HD6400 when encoding with that).

Is this the expected outcome? Or are there settings I need to change?

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Former user wrote on 6/7/2018, 10:47 PM

Give the GPU some work to do by choosing a few GPU intensive filters. Nvidia card should be much faster at graphic processing compared to IGP. If it isn't there's a problem. If you are not using any filters it's mostly the low powered ASIC's doing the work. Maybe QuickSync V6 is faster than your older version of NVENC.

Nvidia Graphics processing (as opposed to NVENC rendering) will not be slower (unless fault)