Windows 11 PCs are getting an upgrade to compete with MacBook Pros

Windows 11 PCs are acquiring an upgrade to compete with MacBook Pros

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Windows 11 has been out for a couple of months now, and spell IT's a properly operating system it hasn't offered many of U.S. a compelling reason to kick upstairs from Windows 10. In fact, if anything we've spent the last few months monitoring the list of Windows 11 problems and wondering when Microsoft will finish resonant out the Windows 11 features promised at launch — most notably, native Android app support.

Notwithstandin, this week Microsoft unveiled a new feature coming to Windows 11 that may please telecasting professionals World Health Organization use Windows machines for work. In a DirectX Developer Blog post Microsoft's Sil Vilerino announced the release of a new DirectX 12 TV Encode feature that helps apps tap the power of GPU-accelerated graphics engines to perform more high-octane telecasting encoding.

MacBook Pro 16-inch 2021 sitting on a patio table — Windows 11 PCs need all the help they put up get to compete with the video rendering muscles of Apple's 2021 MacBook Professional (Image credit: Future)

That's significant because Windows PCs have often been snubbed by video professionals in favor of Apple hardware. That's only become Sir Thomas More common in the last hardly a months in real time that Orchard apple tree's 2021 MacBook Pros sustain arrived; they're some of the best laptops for video editing you seat buy because they offer incredible performance and features aimed at video pros, including dedicated video encode/decode engines and ProRes (Apple's television codec) accelerators.

The recent DirectX 12 Television Encode feature in Windows 11, by comparison, supports the popular H264 and HEVC codecs, with open extensibility for new codecs. It should make Windows 11 a chip more reclaimable Eastern Samoa a platform for pro video work, though the feature article is still in preview and presently only supported on select Nvidia and Intel graphics ironware — Microsoft is on the job on support for select AMD nontextual matter cards, and expects to accept it live midway through 2022. Here's the current list of underhung chipsets:

Windows 11 Video Encode API supported platforms
Vendor	Supported platforms	Minimal video driver rendering
AMD	Radeon RX 5000 serial OR greater \| Ryzen 2xxxx series or greater	In development - ETA Q2 2022
Intel	Tiger Lake \| Ice Lake \| Alder Lake (from early 2022)	v30.0.100.9955
Nvidia	GeForce GTX 10-series and up \| GeForce RTX 20-serial and ascending \| Quadro RTX \| Nvidia RTX	v471.41

In addition to its efficiency, Microsoft claims this new DirectX12 Telecasting Encode API offers a lot of freedom in damage of exposing parameters of the encryption mental process that developers can configure as they wish. Curious devs can understand more than about how it works over on Microsoft's Github, Oregon check out a preview version past downloading the fashionable DirectX12 Agility SDK.

Alex Wawro is a lifelong technical school and games enthusiast with to a higher degree a decade of experience covering both for outlets like Game Developer, Black Chapeau, and PC World magazine. He currently serves as a senior editor program at Tom's Guide coating all things calculation, from laptops and desktops to keyboards and mice.