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Re:AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in com... by NelsonMinar on Saturday August 20, 2022 @02:07PM (#32533997)
I'd never heard of this! The full name is QuickAssist and it does encryption too. They advertise 100Gb/s symmetric crypto, 70Gb/s compression (or roughly 100x faster than ZStandard on a single CPU). Seems to retail for about $650 for a card.
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Re:AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in com... by sexy_panda on Sunday August 28, 2022 @10:28AM (#32628638)
It seems like QuickAssist can also be used for Transcoding. Plex e.g. supports it.

My Intel i9 11900k seems to support it or has it built-in.

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