New Nvidia GeForce 5000 series GPUs come with hardware encoding for Spatial and Immersive Video

If you were thinking Spatial & Immersive formats were a thing of a few devices, you were wrong.

The new Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs feature up to three encoders for 4:2:2 video and FP4 for ramped up AI performance, plus new AI tools for livestreaming, DLSS 4 to boost 3D rendering, NVIDIA NIM microservices, and more.

Built on the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, the GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs can run creative generative AI models up to 2x faster in a smaller memory footprint compared with the previous generation. They also feature ninth-generation NVIDIA encoders for advanced video editing and livestreaming, and come with NVIDIA DLSS 4 and up to 32GB of VRAM to tackle massive 3D projects.

Video capabilities

Nvidia says that GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs deliver a generational leap in its encoders and decoders with support for the 4:2:2 pro-grade color format, multiview-HEVC (MV-HEVC) for 3D and VR video, and support for the new AV1 Ultra High Quality mode.

4:2:2 video provides double the color information with just a 1.3x increase in RAW file size, offering an ideal balance for video editing workflows. The RTX 50 Series is equipped with from a single encoder and decoder to three encoders and two decoders at the top-end RTX 5090. Paired with faster GPUs, the multi-encode setups enable the RTX 5090, for example, to export video 60% faster than the GeForce RTX 4090 and at 4x speed compared with the GeForce RTX 3090, which is an impressive leap in just two generations.

The new GPUs also feature the ninth-generation Nvidia video encoder, NVENC, that offers a 5% improvement in video quality on HEVC and AV1 encoding (BD-BR), as well as a new AV1 Ultra Quality mode that achieves 5% more compression at the same quality. They also include the sixth-generation Nvidia decoder, with 2x the decode speed for H.264 video.

The company says it is collaborating with Adobe Premiere Pro, Blackmagic Design and DaVinci Resolve, Capcut, and Wondershare Filmora to integrate these technologies, starting in February. In other words, there’s a lot of potential souped-up editing performance just round the corner.

Livestreamers can also benefit from the NVENC improvements — 5% BD-BR video quality improvement for HEVC and AV1 — in the latest beta of Twitch’s Enhanced Broadcast feature in OBS, and the improved AV1 encoder for streaming in Discord or YouTube.

And finally for this section, RTX Video is getting an update to decrease GPU usage by 30%, expanding the lineup of GeForce RTX GPUs that can run Video Super Resolution with higher quality.

As nvidia said in 12022: “The future of live sports will be enjoying a full 3D view streamed into the living room over a 5G network, allowing viewers to see all the exciting action from any viewpoint.” (This phrase today seems prophetical).

3D rendering

New RTX 50 Series fourth-generation RT Cores can run 3D applications 40% faster. DLSS 4 meanwhile debuts Multi Frame Generation to boost frame rates by using AI to generate up to three frames per rendered frame.

As already mentioned, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU offers 32GB of GPU memory — the largest of any GeForce RTX GPU ever, marking a 33% increase over the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU. This lets 3D artists build larger, richer worlds while using multiple applications simultaneously. Plus, new RTX 50 Series fourth-generation RT Cores can run 3D applications 40% faster.

The RTX 5090 will cost $1999, the RTX 5080 $999, the RTX 5070 Ti $749, and the RTX 5070 $549. The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs will both be available on January 30, with the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 following in February.

Hope this power increase will allow even more games to be played in Stereoscopic 3D in SpatialLabs TrueGame displays, or with 3D Game Market driver, or using the ReShade plugin SuperDepth3D/VR (available inside ReShade without additional download).