GPU Hardware Acceleration to Convert Video/Audio Files at A Fast Speed

Posted by Aira Lesly Escoto to Convert Video Jun 30, 2022

GPU is known as Graphics Processing Unit, which is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device. Similar to CPU, both components are used to speed up rendering, converting, and optimizing the overall performance. When you need to learn more about GPU acceleration, here is the ultimate guide you should not miss.

Part 1: What is GPU Acceleration

To convert some large video files or process multiple tasks, GPU acceleration is useful for video rendering, gameplay, and graphics-intensive tasks. Once you enable the feature, it will offload some time-consuming and graphics-intensive to accelerate CPUs for general-purpose scientific and engineering computing.

When you need to enhance the performance of 4Easysoft programs, GPU acceleration should always be the initial choice, which supports all the parallel programming models, enables the application designers to provide superior application performance, and plays an important role for Artificial Intelligence via AI acceleration.

4Easysoft Total Video Converter is a versatile video converter, which enables you to convert videos and audio files, edit slideshows and collage videos, and enhance videos with AI technologies. Once you have enabled the GPU acceleration, you can convert the media files at a 60X fast speed.

Part 2: How to Enable GPU Acceleration

4Easysoft supports most of the GPU models, including Intel, AMD, and CUDA. Just learn more about the supported models and system requirements beforehand. Take Intel Quick Sync Video on Windows 10 as an example and learn more about the process as below.

Step 1Make sure you have already installed the latest graphic driver for your GPU. You can simply go to the official website, download and install the latest Intel graphics drivers.

Step 2Right-click on desktop, choose the Display Settings option, select the Advanced Display Settings option and click the Detect above button. If you are using Windows 8/7, you can select the Screen Resolution option and choose the Detect button instead.

Step 3Click the Display menu on the left and choose the Intel® HD Graphics output Graphics option. As for multiple screens, you can find the Multiple displays option and choose the Try to connect anyway on VGA option. Click the Apply button to enable the GPU acceleration.

Step 4Select the Main Display option and choose the Extend these displays option from the Multiple displays drop-down list. Click the Apply button to apply the GPU acceleration. Click the OK button to close the Screen Resolution settings.

Step 5 Restart your computer and launch 4Easysoft Total Video Converter, you can start the lossless video conversion between MP4, AVI, MKV, MOV, FLV, MP3, GIF with GPU acceleration. Moreover, you can also enable the GPU settings within the video converter directly.

What are the Supported GPU Models for 4Easysoft

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Part 3: FAQs about GPU Acceleration

• What are the differences between hardware acceleration and software acceleration?

  Software acceleration is suitable for a limited number of tasks, hardware acceleration works for most of the tasks. 4Easysoft provides an excellent balance with the GPU hardware acceleration and the software acceleration to convert and polish the files losslessly.

• Can I replace a better GPU from another computer for hardware acceleration?

  It is not recommended. The driver support for old GPUs will soon end and the user experience will get worse by passing time. It is the reason that an old graphics card is not an ideal option. Moreover, the replaced GPU requires an additional power supply and better performance of other hardware.

• Why does the Chrome browser crashes when I enable the GPU acceleration?

  GPU acceleration boosts performance for certain tasks, such as video editing and conversion. It may cause issues such as freezing or crashing in Google Chrome or other browsers, exiting gameplay, you can simply disable the feature to fix the related issues.