Is it worth upgrading to use AV1 encoding??

[umboma]

Hey all,


Not long got into VR gaming, got a Quest 3, My PC plays games fine now I have it set up with both VD and Airlink, But is it worth upgrading from a 6800XT to a 40** or 70** series card to use AV1 encoding, current gen doesnt seem like a massive upgrade from last gen in terms of actual PC gaming and it only seems to have AV1 going for it.

So from peoples experiance would you upgrade just for AV1, from videos ive seen it doesnt look any different but I guess you have to be there to see it kinda thing.

 

[umboma]

To me it doesn’t look any better in VD than HEVC at the same bitrate.
It seems to be completely pointless at least the implementation in VD.

Thanks for replying to me,

This is kinda what I thought tbh, if you stream games to youtube/twitch then I get it, but for VR maybe not worth spending out for small or no gains, maybe AV1 will get better with drivers or next gen Gpus. :S