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Hardware Support

Michael Fabian Dirks edited this page Jul 14, 2017 · 49 revisions

The plugin requires that your AMD GPU or APU has support for the Video Coding Engine (at least Version 1.0) in addition to always requiring the latest (not the recommended) driver. For convenience all supported GPUs and APUs are listed here.

The first version of the Video Coding Engine that has been released to the public. It supports H264 Advanced Video Coding and Scalable Video Coding encoding, the YUV 4:2:0 (I420, NV12) color format and has I- and P-Frames.

Devices

HD 7730 HD 7750 HD 7770 HD 7850 HD 7870
HD 7870 XT HD 7950 HD 7950 Boost HD 7970 HD 7970 Ghz Edition
HD 7990 HD 8670 HD 8730 HD 8760 HD 8870
HD 8950 HD 8970 HD 8990 R5 240 R7 240
R7 250 R7 250E R7 250X R7 265 R9 270
R9 270X R9 280 R9 280X R5 330 R5 340
R7 340 R7 350 R7 370 R9 370 R9 370X
R5 M330 R5 M335 R7 M360 R9 M365X R9 M370X
R9 M375 R9 M375X R9 M380 R9 M390 R9 M390X
R9 M395 R5 430 R5 435 R7 430 R7 435
R7 450 Piledriver Trinity Richland

Expected peak Framerate at Resolutions

Resolution H264/AVC H265/HEVC
Speed Balanced Quality Speed Balanced Quality
1:1
256x256 1127,0 1385,1 1033,5 N/A
512x512 578,9 511,5 332,9 N/A
1024x1024 171,7 149,3 91,1 N/A
2048x2048 N/A
4:3
320x240 1356,0 1270,6 920,9 N/A
480x360 815,8 739,6 492,7 N/A
640x480 505,3 445,9 288,5 N/A
800x600 347,2 306,3 192,6 N/A
1024x768 226,3 197,4 118,7 N/A
1152x864 180,5 157,5 96,0 N/A
1600x1200 95,6 83,1 50,2 N/A
5:4
1280x1024 138,7 120,6 73,1 N/A
16:9
426x240 1207,8 1102,6 774,9 N/A
640x360 662,8 586,5 380,5 N/A
854x480 382,4 351,0 223,6 N/A
960x540 329,4 288,8 180,0 N/A
1280x720 194,4 169,4 103,6 N/A
1366x768 166,0 146,6 90,2 N/A
1920x1080 87,5 76,3 46,1 N/A
2560x1440 N/A
3840x2160 N/A
8:5, 16:10
1280x800 175,3 153,2 93,4 N/A
1440x900 136,1 119,3 73,0 N/A
1920x1200 80,0 69,5 41,8 N/A
7:3, 21:9
1680x720 Untested N/A
2560x1080 N/A

The second version of the Video Coding Engine added B-Frames support and nothing else. It is identical in speed to most cards of the first version.

Devices

HD 7790 HD 8770 R7 260 R7 260X R9 290
R9 290X R9 295X2 R7 360 R9 360 R9 390
R9 390X R9 M385 R9 M385X R7 455 Steamroller-Kaveri
Steamroller-Godavi Jaguar-Kabini Jaguar-Temash Puma-Beema Puma-Mullins

The first version that supported up to 4096x2160 encoding at reasonable speed and offered all the features of version 2.0 and 1.0.

Devices

R9 285 R9 380 R9 380X R9 M395X

An iteration of the 3.0 version which has identical features, but lower maximum throughput. It is unknown why AMD chose to do this, however it was most likely to reduce the cost of the GPU.

Devices

R9 Fury R9 Fury X R9 Nano Pro Duo

Accelerated Processing Units supported: Carrizo, Bristol Ridge, Toronto

Version 3.4 added support for H265/HEVC encoding at the cost of reduced throughput in H264/AVC and H264/SVC encoding and also losing the ability to encode B-Frames.

Devices

RX 460 RX 470 RX 480

This version is supposedly used in the upcoming Vega graphics cards, not much is known about them. Supposedly the first generation to support "Radeon Virtualized Encoding" (in Radeon Pro cards apparently) and massively faster. All this is unconfirmed as the cards have not been released yet.

Devices

Vega FE RX Vega

Other Information

If you have a GPU or APU with VCE support and it is not yet listed here or there are no limits for it known, you can [run](https://github.com/Xaymar/obs-studio_amf-encoder-plugin/releases/download/1.9.9.6/AMFSpeedTest.zip)! Once you have run the test, create an issue and it will be added to the wiki.

Sources

- talking about limits(https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/4y10gr/today_we_released_a_new_version_of_the_amd_media/d6kkje0) - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Coding_Engine - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Core_Next - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Radeon_400_series - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Radeon_300_series - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Radeon_200_series - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_8000_Series - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_7000_Series - Github Issues