Question / Help 2 gpus no sli, one for h264 stream encoding, and one for normal work

[Michael Cook]

Can I use one you for h264 encoding to keep stress off my CPUs and increase my settings, and have the other one for normal use.

Thanks,
Mike

 

[FerretBomb]

No, sorry. Even on Studio there is no way to specify a separate encoder card. The quality of NVENC is quite bad though at realistic livestreaming bitrates, and should be considered only suitable for local recording purposes, or as a band-aid for people trying to stream from woefully underpowered machines (like i3s) so they can stream at all.

 

[Osiris]

Actually, on OBS Studio you have the option of selecting which GPU to use, although it's only available when you use NVENC. But it's quite useless to have one GPU for encoding and one GPU for the rest, NVENC is already a seperate chip on the GPU.

 

[Michael Cook]

Actually, on OBS Studio you have the option of selecting which GPU to use, although it's only available when you use NVENC. But it's quite useless to have one GPU for encoding and one GPU for the rest, NVENC is already a seperate chip on the GPU.

so not worth it but possible, would it be better if I sli them, would that take pressure off the cpu?

 

[FerretBomb]

Only if you use OBS Studio; Classic has issues with SLI setups, but Studio has multi-adapter compatibility coded in. Studio is still missing some features though at present.

It won't take any pressure off the CPU though.

 

[Michael Cook]

Only if you use OBS Studio; Classic has issues with SLI setups, but Studio has multi-adapter compatibility coded in. Studio is still missing some features though at present.

It won't take any pressure off the CPU though.

Ok thanks for your help I'm fairly new to streaming(thanks for the new info), was more of a youtube guy.