Av1 articles

Nvidia claims RTX 40 series AV1 encoder is better than AMD and Intel alternatives

YouTube brings AV1 beta livestreaming for improved video quality

HandBrake debuts AV1 encoding integration

Intel may have cancelled Meteor Lake desktop CPUs in favor of a Raptor Lake refresh

Rumor mill: Rumors over the last year have painted a tumultuous picture of the development of Intel's 14th-generation Meteor Lake processors. The latest information takes things a step further regarding Intel's struggles to transition from its current CPU architecture suggesting the company has canceled Meteor Lake's desktop variants. The upcoming series might be struggling to match, much less exceed, Raptor Lake's clock rates.

AMD's Radeon RX 7900 AV1 encoder is almost on par with Intel Arc and Nvidia's RTX 40 series

Why it matters: AMD's new AV1 encoder and fully unlocked encode sessions will allow Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs to compete directly against Nvidia RTX GPUs and Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs in the streaming space. Allowing gamers and content creators to game, record, and stream high quality video all at the same time on a single graphics card.

AV1 codec version 3.5 greatly improves CPU encoding performance

In a nutshell: Google just released AV1 3.5, the newest version of the video-encoding technology, which threatens to be a major player in the content and media industry. The codec now has much more efficient CPU encoding, and hardware support is growing too.

Nvidia Optical Flow Accelerators can use AI frame generation for video encoding, too

Intel Arc AV1 encoder beats AMD and Nvidia's H.264 encoders in early tests