Question / Help Before I buy unnecessary hardware.

[J-Sharpie]

I am currently on Nvidia GTX 560Ti. I'm am going to upgrade to a new video card to 760 or 770.
My question is that will the Nvidia NVENC be good enough to encode the video (for both streaming and recording purposes) or would it be better to purchase a capture card?

 

[Lain]

I'm not sure if NVEnc is recommended for streaming but it's definitely usable, and definitely nice to have for recording.

 

[MrGeekz]

We've tried with the NVenc for streaming and it causes a bit of a blurry stream. I wouldn't recommend it for a stream, but as Jim said above, it's amazing for recording.

 

[alpinlol]

nvenc is fine for streaming on the llhq preset but yet it takes a crazy bitrate

i've testet alot through nvenc with different bitrates, resolution, fps and presetes i also went through quite some games

with my testing as for csgo 720p60 on 3500 bitrate looks somewhat okay theres a huge blocking if theres heavy moving sames for 720p30 just not as fast but its watchable

for league i had no problems with 720p60 @ 3500bitrate then again you could stream 720p60 @ 2000 with x264 and probably would achieve the same result.


so if you can spare the upload and dont care about your viewers its okay, but if you care as a non twitch partner you wont probably even think about going over 2500bitrate

 

[Boildown]

Its not good quality for streaming, no matter which preset you use, unless you use bitrates so high most/all streaming sites won't let you stream to them at that rate. For local recording to the hard drive, its fine. Really good even, because there's practically no hit to the CPU or GPU and you can just crank up the bitrate until it looks good enough to you (personally I do 20000 for 1080p60 local recording).