Enable hardware encoding in Adobe Premiere with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

Most users are confused by the phrases "hardware encoding" and "software encoding" in the Export dialog summary box for H.264 encoding and exports.

Those comments have nothing whatever to do with whether or not Premiere is using your GPU. They only refer to whether your CPU has the Intel QuickSync hardware included and enabled in the BIOS.

If it does, the CPU will use its QuickSync processing hardware to do the encode ... "hardware encoding". If not, the CPU will not of course use the QuickSync hardware it doesn't have ... and you will see "software encoding only" in the Export settings dialog Summary section.

The use of the GPU is determined by the Project settings dialog option for Mercury Acceleration. For an Nvidia GPU like your 2070, you would set that to CUDA.

And then Premiere will use the GPU for anything Premiere uses the GPU for: such things as major frame-resizing, Warp Stabilizer, Lumetri color, and some other effects. The GPU is not used for basic encoding on material not incorporating GPU-accelerated effects.

When using GPU accelerated effects ... as the CPU gets to parts with GPU-effects, it sends the data it needs processed to the GPU. Here's how to see if an effect is GPU accelerated, uses 32-bit float data precision, or is in YUV color, by noting the "lego blocks" by the effect:

Neil