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The reverse, if you had Intel, you'd be SOL.

AMD is a huge AV1 supporter, both with improving speed of software decoding and encoding, but also granting the ability to the Radeon's video ASIC to handle it.

If you have a processor without integrated graphics (more common on AMD than Intel, although Intel also sells some) you don't get hardware accelerated encoding anyway, since that's a feature of the GPU.

Hardware accelerated encoding is usually lower quality anyway so you probably wouldn't use it for this sort of thing.

I thought AV1 encoding is not hardware-accelerated yet.

No current iGPU or dedicated GPU (e.g. NVENC on NVIDIA[1]) support AV1 encoding today - talking about CPU support is odd. Encoders like SVT-AV1 are software-only.

[1]: https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-sup...

Not at all.