In today's world, Nvidia NVDEC has become a topic of great relevance and interest to a wide spectrum of society. Since its emergence, Nvidia NVDEC has captured the attention of academics, experts, professionals and the general public, generating intense debate and endless discussions around its implications, applications and consequences. Whether due to its impact on technology, the economy, culture or politics, Nvidia NVDEC continues to be the object of study and analysis, arousing growing interest and attracting the attention of different actors and sectors. In this article, we will explore the various facets of Nvidia NVDEC, its challenges, opportunities and possible repercussions, with the aim of shedding light on its importance and contributing to the understanding of its scope and meaning today.
Nvidia NVDEC (formerly known as NVCUVID) is a feature in its graphics cards that performs video decoding, offloading this compute-intensive task from the CPU.
It is accompanied by NVENC for video encoding in Nvidia's Video Codec SDK.
NVDEC can offload video decoding to full fixed-function decoding hardware (Nvidia PureVideo), or (partially) decode via CUDA software running on the GPU, if fixed-function hardware is not available.
Depending on the GPU architecture, the following codecs are supported:
NVCUVID was originally distributed as part of the Nvidia CUDA Toolkit. Later, it was renamed to NVDEC and moved to the Nvidia Video Codec SDK.
NVDEC is available for Windows and Linux operating systems. As NVDEC is a proprietary API (as opposed to the open-source VDPAU API), it is only supported by the proprietary Nvidia driver on Linux.
HW accelerated decode and encode are supported on Nvidia GeForce, Quadro, Tesla, and GRID products with Fermi or newer generation GPUs.
Board | Family | Chip | Desktop/ Mobile/ Server |
# Of Chips | # Of NVDEC /Chip |
Total # of NVDEC | MPEG-1 | MPEG-2 | VC-1 | VP8 | VP9 | H.264 (AVCHD) (except High 10) |
H.265 (HEVC) 4:2:0 | H.265 (HEVC) 4:4:4 | AV1 4:2:0 | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8 bit | 10 bit | 12 bit | 8 bit | 10 bit | 12 bit | 8 bit | 10 bit | 12 bit | 8 bit | 10 bit | 12 bit | ||||||||||||
GeForce 710A > 810A | Kepler | GK208 | M | 1 | 1 | 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
GeForce GT 723A / 740A | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||
GeForce GT 720M > 740M | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||
GeForce GT 630 / 635/ 640 / 710 / 730 | D | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
GeForce 710A / 810M / 820M | GK107 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
GeForce GT 640M > 755M / GTX 660M | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||
GeForce GT 630 - 640 GeForce GTX 650 GeForce GT 740 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||
GeForce GTX 645 -650 Ti Boost GeForce GT 740 | GK106 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
GeForce GTX 660 - 690 GeForce GTX 760 - 770 | GK104 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
GeForce GTX 760A/M > 880M | GK104 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
GeForce GTX 680M/MX > 880M | M | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
GeForce GTX 780 - 780 Ti | Kepler (2nd Gen) | GK110 | D | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||
GeForce GTX Titan / Titan Black | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||
GeForce GTX Titan Z | 2 | 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
GeForce GTX 745 - 750 Ti | Maxwell (1st Gen) | GM107 | 1 | 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
GeForce 840M / 845M / 940M / 940MX / 945M | M | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
GeForce GTX 850A > 960A | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||
GeForce GTX 850M > 960M | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||
GeForce 830A > 945A | GM108 | 0 | 0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||
GeForce 830M > 945M | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||
GeForce GTX 920MX - 940MX | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||
GeForce MX110 / MX130 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||
GeForce GTX 750 / 950 - 960 | Maxwell (2nd Gen) | GM206 | D | 1 | 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
GeForce GTX 965M | GM206 | M | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
GeForce GTX 910M / 920M / 920A | GM208B | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
GeForce GTX 980M / 980MX | GM204 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
GeForce GTX 960 Ti / 970 / 980 | D | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
GeForce GTX 980 Ti | GM200 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
GeForce GTX Titan X | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||
GeForce MX150 | Pascal | GP108 | M | 0 | 0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
GeForce MX230 / MX250 / MX330 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||
GeForce GT 1030 | D | 1 | 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||
GeForce GTX 1050 / 1050 Ti / MX350 | GP107 | D/M | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
GeForce GTX 1050 / 1050 Ti | GP106 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
GeForce GTX 1060 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||
GeForce GTX 1060 | GP104 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
GeForce GTX 1070M / 1080M | GP104B | M | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
GeForce GTX 1070 / 1070 Ti / 1080 | GP104 | D/M | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti | GP102 | D | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
GeForce GTX Titan X / Titan Xp | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||
Titan V | Volta | GV100 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
GeForce GTX 1650 / MX450 | Turing | TU117 | D/M | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |||
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti / 1660 / 1660 Super | TU116 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |||||
GeForce RTX 2060 / 2070 / 2060 Super | TU106 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |||||
GeForce RTX 2080 / 2070 Super / 2080 Super | TU104 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |||||
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti | TU102 | D | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||||
Titan RTX | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||||||
A100 | Ampere | GA100 | S | 5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti / RTX 3050 | GA107 | D/M | 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |||
GeForce RTX 3060 | GA106 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |||||
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti / 3070 / 3070 Ti | GA104 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |||||
GeForce RTX 3080 / 3090 | GA102 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |||||
GeForce RTX 4090 | Ada | AD102 | D | 1 | 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Board | Family | Chip | Desktop/ Mobile/ Server |
# Of Chips | # Of NVDEC /Chip |
Total # of NVDEC | MPEG-1 | MPEG-2 | VC-1 | VP8 | VP9 | H.264 (AVCHD) |
H.265 (HEVC) 4:2:0 | H.265 (HEVC) 4:4:4 | AV1 4:2:0 | ||||||||
8 bit | 10 bit | 12 bit | 8 bit | 10 bit | 12 bit | 8 bit | 10 bit | 12 bit | 8 bit | 10 bit | 12 bit |
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)