The 13th-generation platform attached to this test is as follows:

Processor: Intel Core i9-13900K

Motherboard: MSI MEG Z790 Ace DDR5

Memory: G.Skill Trident Z5 2 x 16GB DDR5-6600 CL34

Hard Drive: Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus-G 4TB

Power supply: 1500W Dark Power Pro 12

Radiator: Cooler Master PL360 Flux

System: 64-bit Win11 Professional Edition

Gen 12 Test Platform:

Processor: Intel Core i9-12900K

Motherboard: MSI Pro Z690-A WiFi DDR4

Memory: Corsair 2x16GB DDR4-3600 CL16

HDD: Crucial P5 Plus 2TB

Radiator: Cooler Master MWE 1250 V2 Gold

System: 64-bit Win11 Professional Edition

Test graphics card:

Nvidia: RTX 4090, RTX 3090, GTX 1650

Intel: A770, integrated UHD 770 graphics

AMD: RX 7900 XTX, RX 6900 XT, RX 5700 XT, RX Vega 56, and RX 590

Test Results:

AV1 encoding test results are not much different from HEVC encoding, and the only advantage of AV1 is that it is royalty-free.

Nvidia Ada Lovelace NVENC hardware performs best and is currently only equipped on RTX 4070 Ti and higher GPU models.

Intel’s Arc GPUs also offer great quality and performance for streaming purposes. However, Nvidia graphics cards offer richer adjustment options and more software support.

AMD GPU is still behind the two competitors. The RDNA 3-based RX 7900-series graphics cards performed best, but performed about as well as the GTX 10-series from 2016 when it came to video encoding.

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FFmpeg is open-source free software that performs recording, conversion, and streaming of audio and video in multiple formats, and includes libavcodec, a library of decoders for audio and video in multiple projects, and libavformat — an audio and video format conversion library. The “FF” in the word “FFmpeg” means “Fast Forward”. FFmpeg is widely used by multimedia applications, including the popular video player VLC.

Major changes in FFmpeg 6.0 include support for AV1 hardware decoding on Intel, Nvidia and AMD graphics cards. In addition, FFmpeg 6.0 will introduce multi-threading support for the FFmpeg command line, optimize the RISC-V architecture and API, and more.

Other new features in FFmpeg 6.0 include new decoders Bonk, APAC, Mi-SC4, 100i, VQC, FTR, etc.

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The original intention of HandBrake software is to rip DVD content, convert existing video clips into videos that can be watched on platforms such as iOS, and reduce the space occupied by video files through compression algorithms. HandBrake software is a free, cross-platform open source video conversion tool that can run on macOS, Windows and Linux platforms.

In the version 1.6.0 update, the video conversion tool supports AV1, VP9 10-bit, NVENC HEVC 10-bit and VCN HEVC 10-bit video encoding. The update also adds high bit-depth and color-depth support for various encoders and filters, as well as introduces new 4K AV1 and 4K HEVC presets.

Owners of Apple Silicon Macs can now use the VideoToolbox encoder’s 4:2:2 H.265 profile. The new version of the app also supports Intel Deep Link Hypercoding to improve performance when using multiple QSV media engines on Intel-based computers. But there’s more. HandBrake now works with OpenBSD, while the Mac version supports Quick Look and offers localization improvements such as Japanese.

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