Software Or Hardware Encoding. Software encoders work with your computers operating system so encoding isnt the primary function. Nvidia NVENC is GPU hardware accelerator engine for video encoding developed by Nvidia.
The reviews i heared about amd encoder are not really good. Never get confused in between software encoding and hardware encoding. An encoder is a tool that converts video files from RAW to digital.
Hardware encoders you may recognize.
So i wanna ask is it better then x264. With encoding offloaded the graphics engine and the CPU are free for other operations. A hardware encoder takes a feed from your camera and audio sources or your video mixer into a physical box. Software encoders are by far the most common type of encoder in use today.