Nvidia Enhances Video Encoding on Consumer GPUs
Nvidia has quietly updated its support page to reveal that most of its GPUs can now encode up to five video streams simultaneously, up from the previous limit of three. This unlocks capabilities that were always present in the hardware but were software-limited in consumer GPUs. The change applies to most GeForce GPUs going back to the 2014-era Maxwell architecture, and users may need to install the most recent drivers to unlock the additional encoding capabilities. However, video quality settings may still limit the number of video streams that can be encoded simultaneously.