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> For video game capture/screen recording though (which is a big part of what people tend to do with NVEnc) it might be a bit more convenient for the chip to be on the GPU?

Yeah there's usually a fast path which copies the framebuffer directly to the encoder internally, so the huge uncompressed frames never have to be transferred over the PCI Express bus.




That's exactly what I was thinking of, but I didn't know for sure. Thanks for confirming.




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