Index
- Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 Founders Edition review
- Hardware - Inside Nvidia's Founders Edition
- Geforce GTX 1070 Specifications
- Power efficiency and design
- Nvidia's Pascal GP104
- HDR display gaming now supported
- H.264 and HEVC playback on Geforce Pascal
- Single, double and half-precision performance
- PCI-E 3.0 x8 and PCI-E 3.0 x16 bandwidth
- Test setup
- Results - Fallout 4
- Results - Far Cry 4
- Results - No Man's Sky
- Results - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Results - Just Cause 3
- Nvidia GPU Boost 3.0
- Conclusion
- All Pages
H.264 and HEVC playback on Geforce Pascal
The first card to support hardware acceleration of H.264 and VC-1 video playback was the Geforce 6600 with the introduction of Nvidia’s PureVideo technology. This was further improved in the Geforce 8400, 8500 and 8600 series with a dedicated H.264 pipeline. The Geforce 8400GS then followed as the first card to natively decode Blu-ray disc formats, while Kepler-based Geforce 600 cards were the first to natively support 4K decoding.
The company then introduced dedicated H.265 HEVC decoding blocks with Geforce GTX 950, 960 and GTX 750 SE. Meanwhile, other Geforce 900 series cards have partial HEVC playback in a hybrid solution involving both the CPU and GPU arrays.
With Geforce 10, however, HEVC playback is now natively supported on the entire card lineup and supports 10-bit and 12-bit decoding formats. The cards can also support decoding H.264 and HEVC in 4K at 120Hz or 8K at 30Hz, or dual stream encoding of H.264 and HEVC each in 4K at 60Hz.
