Question Intel Arc A380 with a Ryzen 1700X for video encoding ?

[LLA]

I have and old Ryzen 1700X CPU with a GT 1050 Ti GPU that seems to only encode with VLC with only 2 CPU cores instead of 8. I'm thnking of bringing it back to life with an Arc A380, if they go on sale and was wondering if it would be good for video encoding SD/near HD. Or is the Ryzen 1700X too old for VLC and should I switch to something like Handbrake to use all the cores?

 

[TerryLaze]

Huh?!
If you want to use the CPU for encoding then the GPU doesn't matter at all.

If you want to use the GPU the 1050ti has x.264 hardware support and does the encoding on the GPU, if it does use CPU it's because of some sort of bug in the code the usage on the CPU should be very close to 0%

Yes, you should use handbrake so you can choose a gpu codec and do the encodings on the gpu alone, or use choose cpu encoding and only use the CPU.

Also some codecs are limited on how many threads they can run by the size (dimensions) of the video.