Nvidia GPUs are about to transform Beamr’s business, or so the Israeli video compression vendor hopes – with internal projections that the launch of its new SaaS service later this year will attract a wave of new enterprise customers. Beamr’s video encoding technology now supports Nvidia GPU acceleration, generating up to 10x speed improvements in video encoding over CPU-based processing, with a significant reduction in bitrate, while maintaining visual quality. Power consumption is not mentioned in the announcement, for obvious reasons. The peak power of Nvidia and AMD GPUs can reach 300W, compared to a typical CPU consuming only 80W. However, many research papers have attempted to debunk the narrative of GPUs being a non-green technology, so it is notable…