I've wanted to buy an upgrade to my RX580 for years now, but I'd really like AV1 encoding support. With OBS finally supporting AV1 on all platforms (?), this actually makes sense. But I'm once again reminded how bad the used market for GPUs is in my country atm, so I'll wait for a while longer.
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Got a 6700XT second hand about a year ago when the price finally came down from astronomical ridiculous crypto bubble crazy, to almost reasonable. Just looked and they're still going for the same price. Thought this would have dropped a bit by now, but I guess not.
Yes, I've also had an eye on the 6700XT, but I made the bad decision to wait for the new gen and hopefully a price drop for older GPUs. The stable used prices are probably because of people who bought at exorbitant prices who don't want to sell their GPU for nothing, combined with the new gen having the same price to performance ratio.
Now with the 7600XT having 16GB VRAM, I've thought about buying until I noticed it only supports PCIe 4.0 x8, which is half the bandwidth on my PCIe 3.0 x16 slot. It's a B350 board I want to upgrade to a 5800X3D and use for years to come. This means I'm basically forced to either go with a 7700XT, or go with an older 6700XT.
Anyway, waiting years for a new gen isn't an option either, so I'll stay frustrated for a while longer.
Fun coincidence, 16 lanes was one of my concerns as well when I got mine. I'm also on an old AM4 motherboard. Currently have a 3900X CPU which is plenty for my needs for now, but it's good knowing I still have an upgrade path to an X3D. AM4 has been an awesome platform in terms of upgradability :)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The cross-platform OBS software that is popular with game streamers and others live-recording their desktops has finally landed support for AV1 video encoding using Linux's Video Acceleration API (VA-API) interface.
Opened last May was a merge request for the OBS FFmpeg code to add AV1 support for VA-API.
As of Tuesday evening that code was merged.
The code has successfully tested the VA-API AV1 encoding using the Mesa drivers.
VA-API AV1 encoding is available with AMD Radeon RX 7000 series graphics and Intel Arc Graphics when it comes to those with open-source Mesa driver support.
It's unfortunate that it has taken until into 2024 to get this code merged, but nevertheless exciting for the next OBS feature release.
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I've been using and loving the Intel AV1 support that got added with the latest update. Glad to see we're getting a VA-API implementation now.
So my Rx 5500 will work right?
Is the performance drawback from streaming in this encoding less noticeable?