To reduce the cost of the GPU and the corresponding graphics card price, thin modules and even functions are definitely necessary, what do you say? Still refining features? That's right, for example, the recent entry-level graphics card has taken the video processing module, and the RX 6500 XT has allegedly "eliminated" the video acceleration function. Does this mean that we are back in the era of "soft decompression" video? And how to make up for this defect? Let's take a look at it today.
Here is a misunderstanding, in fact, RX 6500 XT is not the entire video function is canceled, but no longer support encoding acceleration, as for decoding acceleration, but only canceled the RX 6000 series of new AV1 decoding capabilities. From the practical application point of view, in a variety of online and offline videos, H.265 has just formed the mainstream with H.264, and the popularity of the updated AV1 will take a while, so it is no problem to watch videos for a long time.
As for the actual performance, from the test point of view, when playing high-bitrate video, the GPU is obviously still the main "labor", and the CPU is quite "relaxed", while watching the video while processing some other applications is completely fine, in most cases, the experience of watching video is no different from other unique displays.
However, if you want to process the video yourself, you must not be able to enable hardware acceleration by default, then you can only look at the performance of the CPU, and the system resource occupation will be very large. Some small partners probably noticed that Xiaobian said "default situation", yes, don't forget that many CPU integrated graphics cards can also support hardware acceleration, the latest Core processor core display also supports RX 6500 XT missing AV1 decoding, but the desktop settings are slightly troublesome.
We need to use the second monitor to connect the video output provided by the motherboard, when processing video, pull the program window to the interface of the connecting motherboard, that is, the display that uses the CPU integrated graphics card, you can choose the CPU integrated graphics card to accelerate the encoding. Without a second monitor, you can actually use a two-wire connection to the computer, and switching different input ports with the monitor button is equivalent to "switching" the display.