It appears as though the latest NVIDIA GeForce drivers for December 2025 (591.44 – WHQL) have increased the number of NVENC encodes to 12. We couldn’t find anything in the release notes, but someone reported it on our forums. We set up a vMix 29 preset and then added dual recordings, multicorders, SRT, telestrator and streams all with the hardware encoder ticked and… it worked with 12! This was with an RTX 5070.

Now just because you have 12 hardware encodes at your disposal, probably doesn’t mean you should try this with your 2060 at high resolutions and framerates. Definitely test out the actual number of encodes you need and experiment with the resolution and frame rate.

You can see all of the cards that support 12 hardware encodes by checking out the NVIDIA Encoder Matrix.