News OBS cuts the cord on Kepler GPU NVENC support — version 31.0.0 Beta 1 no longer works with GTX 600 and GTX 700 GPU hardware encoders

[Admin]

OBS Studio finally ends NVENC encoding support for Nvidia's over-decade-old Kepler GPU architecture, which powered the GTX 600 and 700 series.

OBS cuts the cord on Kepler GPU NVENC support — version 31.0.0 Beta 1 no longer works with GTX 600 and GTX 700 GPU hardware encoders : Read more

 

[DS426]

"The Kepler GPU architecture was Nvidia's first-ever GPU design, and..."

What?? No, the GeForce 256 was nVidia's first GPU. Need to reword as yes, NVENC was introduced with Kepler.

 

[josmat]

"If you want to encode on these very old GPUs..."

These young people today, they have an extremely distorted notion of time.

 

[kyzarvs]

"The Kepler GPU architecture was Nvidia's first-ever GPU design, and..."

What?? No, the GeForce 256 was nVidia's first GPU. Need to reword as yes, NVENC was introduced with Kepler.

Exactly - my first GPU was a GeForce 2 GTS! A very long time before Kepler.

 

[Eximo]

"If you want to encode on these very old GPUs..."

These young people today, they have an extremely distorted notion of time.

In terms of GPUs capable of NVENC, these are the oldest. CUDA was only 5 years before that. The beginning of the GPGPU era was in the early 2000s.

Prior to that you wouldn't even have the notion of running non-display tasks on a GPU.

 

[AkroZ]

In terms of GPUs capable of NVENC, these are the oldest. CUDA was only 5 years before that. The beginning of the GPGPU era was in the early 2000s.

Prior to that you wouldn't even have the notion of running non-display tasks on a GPU.

GPGPU existed long before CUDA. Since Vertex Shaders was introduced with the Geforce 3 (2001), the programming pipeline was sometimes used for other tasks as you can read the resulting data instead of displaying it, but this was hacky. Some IT papers were showing good results in using the GPU instead of the CPU for parrallel tasks.
One day someone published a driver to program nvidia graphic cards, nvidia hired him and some years laters cuda was born.

 

[Eximo]

GPGPU existed long before CUDA. Since Vertex Shaders was introduced with the Geforce 3 (2001)

Second sentence mentions it.

 

[crunchylayer4]

"The Kepler GPU architecture was Nvidia's first-ever GPU design, and..."

What?? No, the GeForce 256 was nVidia's first GPU. Need to reword as yes, NVENC was introduced with Kepler.

NV1 was their first GPU. SGS Thomson manufactured the chips for them. The Diamond Edge 3D board also functioned as an audio interface and game controller input. It came bundled with Sega Virtua Fighter. Back in the day, I bought one at Fry's Electronics.

 

[Giroro]

There's probably some really good technical reason behind the scenes for why they had to drop support, but I'm not seeing what that would be.
My initial reaction was "At least it's not Maxwell, they shouldn't drop support for Maxwell", even though Maxwell is only 2 years newer, and I have no idea why that's where I draw the line. I thought maybe because they still sell the GT 730... which is Fermi/Keppler based and lacks NVENC regardless of what die was thrown in there.

Then I remembered that the Nintendo Switch uses a Maxwell chip from 2015. That's weird to think about.

 

[das_stig]

Time for anything but a 900 series to be retired, replacements cheap on eBay that just wipe the floor with them performance and power wise.

 

[evdjj3j]

"If you want to encode on these very old GPUs..."

These young people today, they have an extremely distorted notion of time.

I thought the same thing when the author described the architecture as ancient.

 

[luckzeh]

The old people posting here that 12 years old hardware isn't too old perhaps forgot how computers became antiquated trash at just say four years of age.
A long long time ago in a Moore's-Law-iverse far away, it took only a bit more than a year to go from 500 MHz to 1 GHz CPUs.

 

[subspruce]

GPGPU existed long before CUDA. Since Vertex Shaders was introduced with the Geforce 3 (2001), the programming pipeline was sometimes used for other tasks as you can read the resulting data instead of displaying it, but this was hacky. Some IT papers were showing good results in using the GPU instead of the CPU for parrallel tasks.
One day someone published a driver to program nvidia graphic cards, nvidia hired him and some years laters cuda was born.

in fact, ATI's Ultra Threaded Shader Engine architecture from 2005, which didn't use unified shading, was used in the Stream Processor (chip from Radeon X1950 XTX) from 2007