Question / Help benchmarks for new gear

[Dillon Kelly]

I know obs is CPU bound, and im looking at upgrading my stream PC. is there any specific benchmark that i should use to compare how dif. CPUs will perform in OBS? is there a common benchmark that runs similarly to obs?

 

[BK-Morpheus]

OBS needs a few percent of your GPU to render the scene (so always cap your in game fps) but other than that you need video encoding power.
So if you aim for good OBS encoding performance, check the benchmarks for video encoding stuff like handbrake.

 

[Dillon Kelly]

awesome, handbrake is a common enough i should be able to get handbrake scores to compare chips. Thanks!