Our new media engine includes built-in hardware acceleration for the broadest set of codecs in the industry including HEVC, H.264/AVC, and VP9. On top of that, Intel Arc graphics is the first in the industry to support hardware accelerated AV1 decoding AND encoding. Direct hardware support for AV1 encoding provides a 50x improvement in encoding speed1 compared to traditional software implementations!
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Primarily, it's the RTX aspect of the 2060 that sets it apart from its nearest AMD competitor, the RX 5600 XT. Its ability to tap into the DXR API and by extension access the full range of visual options available in supported games is obviously a nice feature to have - and with ray tracing confirmed for the next-gen consoles, the broader adoption of RT is a case of not if but when. On top of that, the inclusion of Turing's tensor cores allows for the 2060 to access hardware-accelerated machine learning features with the AI-powered DLSS upscaling pretty much the only application for this technology in the here and now. This is all in addition to standard graphics power that's generally in excess of the RX 5600 XT - to the point that AMD had to deliver an 11th hour BIOS upgrade to bring its latest Navi release back into contention.
5. Hopefully you have a HP OEM COA sticker for W7Pro64 on that Z800. You can use that for one workstation to create a build that is not using the HP OEM image build that HP would have shipped with the original workstation. You probably don't have the HP Restore optical disks or Restore partition. Not sure if MS has fixed their W7 updating system, which has been a royal PITA. I have posted here about the solution to that. You need a MS system builder W7Pro64 installer with SP1 on it to use that COA sticker's code. Once that is activated then W10Pro64 can be upgraded onto the box. Or you can start with W10Pro64.
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