GPU acceleration refers to making use of the massive processing power of GPU of, say NVIDA© CUDA™, AMD®, Intel® Core™, and Apple M1/M1 Pro/M1 Max in a parallel way to release the burden of CPU and offload some compute-intensive and time consuming works.Īlthough hardware acceleration is more extensive, the two have the same purpose, and are widely used to boost gaming, rendering, and image algorithms significantly. Simply put, hardware acceleration is the applying of CPUs (the general-purpose processors) and GPUs / ASICs (fully customized hardware) to improve the efficiency of computing. Many users will get confused by the concepts and working principles of hardware acceleration and GPU acceleration or consider they are the same. Part 1: What Is Hardware Acceleration and GPU Acceleration?

Part 6: FAQ about Hardware Acceleration.

How to Use Hardware Acceleration in VideoProc Converter

Part 4: What Can VideoProc Converter's Full Hardware Acceleration Do.

Part 3: What Is Full Hardware Accelerated Video Processing.

Hardware Acceleration is important to 4K video editing

Part 1: What is Hardware Acceleration and GPU Acceleration?.

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But before that, let's learn about the concept, basic knowledge and theory about hardware and GPU acceleration. In the text, we will explain in details why VideoProc Converter's full Hardware acceleration boosts (4K) video encoding, editing and rendering to a great extent. Without Hardware acceleration, the decoding and rendering of lengthy, RAW files from high-end cinema cameras, and especially 4K Ultra High Resolution videos are often loaded to the brim with stutters, freezes, glitches. Even Microsoft has added Hardware acceleration support for AV1 video codec to Windows 10. It is more and more important for video encoding, decoding, compressing and editing.

Hardware acceleration is used everywhere, from games to graphic design. By Cecilia Hwung | Last Update: May 31, 2023

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