AV1 Encoding Test with an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT and Burnout 3: Takedown

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Published on March 20, 2023 5:56:10 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRSyE5cw1Lc

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Burnout 3: Takedown (2004)

Duration: 6:08

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Welcome to 2023, where the most demanding of codecs can be competently encoded by the most expensive of GPUs. While Nvidia's current 40-series cards all support AV1 encoding - and they handle it very well, AMD also gained the ability to encode video in AV1 with its new wave of video encoders appearing on RDNA 3 GPUs. I don't have a socket AM5 CPU with an RDNA 3 iGPU, but I do have an RX 7900 XT, so I decided to see how it would cope with something that AV1 was NOT designed to do: compress an analog Component video source being butchered by my capture card into something that looks presentable at 4K... or close enough to it.

This led me down to the one road I tend to default to: the trusty PlayStation 2. Taking that out of retirement led me to the one road I default to for the console when I need to run anything 480p: Burnout 3, one of a handful of games that actually renders a 640x480 image when outputting at 480p. Honestly, I was expecting it to look a little worse than it actually did, but it's all academic, as YouTube will butcher it beyond belief anyways.

I still plan on doing some VHS videos, but again, I'm looking into other avenues to start capturing videos again. For the time being, I'm probably just going to hook my Panasonic DMR-ES35V up to my Toshiba DVR620 as an HDMI passthrough./deinterlacer for it, as I can walk around the limitations of HDCP easily enough with my hardware. In any case, enjoy this capture test.

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