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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.
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 the test yourself! Once you have run the test, create an issue and it will be added to the wiki.
Video Coding Engine 1.0
The first public Video Coding Engine on an AMD card which can encode the two basic H264 codecs AVC (Advanced Video Coding) and SVC (Scalable Video Coding). It supports the NV12 color format, encodes I- & P-Frames, supports the Profiles Baseline, Main, and High (with the highest Profile Level being 5.1) and can at most encode resolutions up to 1920x1920.
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 | R7 250X | R7 260 |
| R7 260X | 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 |
Capabilities
AVC/SVC (H264)
- Type: Hardware Accelerated
- Resolution 64x64 - 1920x1920
- Interlacing: No
- Max. Profile: High
- Max. Level: 5.1
- B-Frames: No
- Max. Simultaneous Streams: 16
- Formats: NV12 (Native/Output), YUV420P, YV12, BGRA, RGBA, ARGB
- Backends: Vulkan, DirectX 11, OpenGL, OpenCL
Performance
Expected encoding throughput can be found on this page.
Video Coding Engine 2.0
This generation added the ability to encode B-Frames and increased the overall throughput of the encoder, but was otherwise identical to the first generation.
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 |
Capabilities
AVC/SVC (H264)
- Type: Hardware Accelerated
- Resolution 64x64 - 1920x1920
- Interlacing: No
- Max. Profile: High
- Max. Level: 5.1
- B-Frames: Yes
- Max. Simultaneous Streams: 16
- Formats: NV12 (Native/Output), YUV420P, YV12, BGRA, RGBA, ARGB
- Backends: Vulkan, DirectX 11, OpenGL, OpenCL
Performance
Expected encoding throughput can be found on this page.
Video Coding Engine 3.0
The third generation of VCE massively improved the speed VCE could encode at and also increased the maximum resolution to DCI 4K (4096x2160), but was otherwise identical to the previous two generations.
Devices
| R9 285 | R9 380 | R9 380X | R9 M395X |
Capabilities
AVC/SVC (H264)
- Type: Hardware Accelerated
- Resolution 64x64 - 4096x2160
- Interlacing: No
- Max. Profile: High
- Max. Level: 5.2
- B-Frames: Yes
- Max. Simultaneous Streams: 16
- Formats: NV12 (Native/Output), YUV420P, YV12, BGRA, RGBA, ARGB
- Backends: Vulkan, DirectX 11, OpenGL, OpenCL
Performance
Expected encoding throughput can be found on this page.
Video Coding Engine 3.1
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 | Carrizo |
| Bristol Ridge | Toronto | Stoney Ridge |
Capabilities
AVC/SVC (H264)
- Type: Hardware Accelerated
- Resolution 64x64 - 4096x2160
- Interlacing: No
- Max. Profile: High
- Max. Level: 5.2
- B-Frames: Yes
- Max. Simultaneous Streams: 16
- Formats: NV12 (Native/Output), YUV420P, YV12, BGRA, RGBA, ARGB
- Backends: Vulkan, DirectX 11, OpenGL, OpenCL
Performance
Expected encoding throughput can be found on this page.
Video Coding Engine 3.4
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 450 | RX 460 | RX 470 | RX 480 |
| RX 550 | RX 560 | RX 570 | RX 580 |
Capabilities
AVC/SVC (H264)
- Type: Hardware Accelerated
- Resolution 64x64 - 4096x2160
- Interlacing: No
- Max. Profile: High
- Max. Level: 5.2
- B-Frames: No
- Max. Simultaneous Streams: 16
- Formats: NV12 (Native/Output), YUV420P, YV12, BGRA, RGBA, ARGB
- Backends: Vulkan, DirectX 11, OpenGL, OpenCL
HEVC (H265)
- Type: Hardware Accelerated
- Resolution 192x128 - 4096x2176
- Interlacing: No
- Max. Profile: Main
- Max. Tier: High
- Max. Level: 6.2
- Max. Simultaneous Streams: 16
- Formats: NV12 (Native/Output), YUV420P, YV12, BGRA, RGBA, ARGB
- Backends: Vulkan, DirectX 11, OpenGL, OpenCL
Performance
Expected encoding throughput can be found on this page.
Video Coding Engine 4.0
The current and last VCE generation before AMD switched to the VCN naming scheme, further adding more confusion in the future by starting at 1.0 again.
Devices
| Vega FE | Vega 48 | Vega 56 | Vega 64 |
| Raven Ridge |
Capabilities
AVC/SVC (H264)
- Type: Hardware Accelerated
- Resolution 64x64 - 4096x2160
- Interlacing: No
- Max. Profile: High
- Max. Level: 5.2
- B-Frames: No
- Max. Simultaneous Streams: 16
- Formats: NV12 (Native/Output), YUV420P, YV12, BGRA, RGBA, ARGB
- Backends: Vulkan, DirectX 11, OpenGL, OpenCL
HEVC (H265)
- Type: Hardware Accelerated
- Resolution 192x128 - 4096x2176
- Interlacing: No
- Max. Profile: Main
- Max. Tier: High
- Max. Level: 6.2
- Max. Simultaneous Streams: 16
- Formats: NV12 (Native/Output), YUV420P, YV12, BGRA, RGBA, ARGB
- Backends: Vulkan, DirectX 11, OpenGL, OpenCL
Performance
Expected encoding throughput can be found on this page.
Video Core Next 1.0
Devices
| RX 5700 | RX 5700 XT | RX 5700 XT AE | |
| Raven Ridge? |
Capabilities
AVC/SVC (H264)
- Unknown
HEVC (H265)
- Unknown
Performance
Expected encoding throughput can be found on this page.
Sources
- /u/AMD_Robert talking about limits
- List of AMD Graphics Processing Units (Wikipedia)
- Video Coding Engine (Wikipedia)
- Graphics Core Next (Wikipedia)
- AMD Radeon 400 Series (Wikipedia)
- AMD Radeon 300 Series (Wikipedia)
- AMD Radeon 200 Series (Wikipedia)
- Radeon HD 8000 Series (Wikipedia)
- Radeon HD 7000 Series (Wikipedia)
- Github Issues
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