Question / Help Is MSI GTX 1060, 6 GB GDDR5 enough for Full HD recording output?

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Metaliz123

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Hello everybody. I want to film a series of music production tutorials using OBS. I've recently purchased a Logitech Brio so people can see my horrible face and I'm having 24 fps drop everytime I start the recording.
I should have to mention that I currently have a I7 - 6700 series CPU and unfortunately, an integrated Intel Graphics Card, hence my intention to buy a new dedicated Graphics card.
I just want to be sure that if I buy a GTX 1060, OBS will be able to record two video sources at 60 FPS without any noticeable frames drop.
 
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koala

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Your iGPU should be just fine and able to do what you're trying to do, including displaying webcam video, as long as you don't try to start CPU- and GPU-heavy 3D games and apps that fully load both of them.

The cause of your fps drop is probably something different, not GPU-related.

The following is true, if you want to record only, postprocess your raw footage with a video editor and upload later to YT or whatever.

In OBS, use simple output mode and choose Quicksync (QSV) as encoder and "Indistinguishable quality" as quality.
In case you want to record multiple audio tracks, you have to use advanced output mode. Choose Quicksync as encoder here, ICQ as rate control and ICQ quality of 18.
By choosing Quicksync as encoder, you don't need to worry about the CPU consumption of the x264 software encoder. The image quality for recording is the same.

If you still have low fps, post a log with a recording attempt.

If you still insist on buying a extra GPU, yes, the GTX 1060 is ok. But as I said before: it is probably overkill to buy an extra GPU for your use case. If you still insist and looking for a cheaper GPU, stick with some Nvidia GTX brand. Don't buy a GT 1030, for example, since this doesn't have the nvenc encoder.
 
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Metaliz123

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Thank you so much for your quick response. I tried what you suggested but I was still getting frame drops. Funny thing is that I left my Logitech Brio camera on default and it worked.

Does OBS have optimization problems?
 
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