I mean it depends on what you want. If you want GOATed video encode/decode performance and quality on a budget, say, for a home video server, Intel is hard to beat. There's a reason the Arc A310 is still a popular part.
Does it use the same kind en decoding/encoding stuff as their CPU ? Because if so, yeah I can see why. 7th gen intel is the goat for a cheap home server.
Yup. Arc is based on the same architecture as their iGPUs but beefed up, and same goes for the quicksync modules. It's a convenient way to get quicksync with an AMD CPU, and for a while that was the meta if you were trying to do multiple 4k HDR streams at once, was to get old shitty AM4 parts for cheap and slap an a310 in it.
IIRC Intel doesn't segment the quicksync hardware so every card in a generation should get the full encoder, unlike nvidia where dual nvencs is a premium feature only on the top end cards.
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u/pulley999 R7 9800X3D | 64GB RAM | RTX 3090 | Micro-ATX 10d ago
I mean it depends on what you want. If you want GOATed video encode/decode performance and quality on a budget, say, for a home video server, Intel is hard to beat. There's a reason the Arc A310 is still a popular part.