[NelsonMinar]

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.

[sexy_panda]

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.