Hi
I am currently hunting for a new streaming laptop. Thus far I have been using a Mid 2012 I5 2.5ghz w/ 16gb RAM macbook to stream using OBS studio (in studio mode).
My capture device is a blackmagic thunderbolt 2 mini recorder, which I must say has been flawless. I do not use play games on the Laptop, it is purely for vision mixing still images, video captured from the card, and some text / image overlays.
As I want to stay with a blackmagic capture cards (I use SDI inputs due to the cameras I my video source from), I am looking at thunderbolt laptops (the encoder must be portable so unfortunately I am stuck to a laptop).
My client has requested adding another streaming destination on and I have tested the dual RTMP plugin which is also flawless. However CPU is maxing at 80% so the macbook will no longer suffice (I could broadcast to a wowza streaming server if needed).
My question is: I have found the following laptop:
New Dell G5 15- i7-10750H Nvidia GTX 1660 etc. So I can run Nvec to offload CPU power onto the GFX card. My question is, for the use case, is this laptop way overpowered, could I get away with an I5 (if I had to stream to streaming cloud to split the RTMP to 2 destinations then so be it)
Of course I'm on a budget, but I'm not too keen on going to a USB capture card as I've found they arent reliable for a professional use case.
Thanks for reading and I look forward to your response.
I am currently hunting for a new streaming laptop. Thus far I have been using a Mid 2012 I5 2.5ghz w/ 16gb RAM macbook to stream using OBS studio (in studio mode).
My capture device is a blackmagic thunderbolt 2 mini recorder, which I must say has been flawless. I do not use play games on the Laptop, it is purely for vision mixing still images, video captured from the card, and some text / image overlays.
As I want to stay with a blackmagic capture cards (I use SDI inputs due to the cameras I my video source from), I am looking at thunderbolt laptops (the encoder must be portable so unfortunately I am stuck to a laptop).
My client has requested adding another streaming destination on and I have tested the dual RTMP plugin which is also flawless. However CPU is maxing at 80% so the macbook will no longer suffice (I could broadcast to a wowza streaming server if needed).
My question is: I have found the following laptop:
New Dell G5 15- i7-10750H Nvidia GTX 1660 etc. So I can run Nvec to offload CPU power onto the GFX card. My question is, for the use case, is this laptop way overpowered, could I get away with an I5 (if I had to stream to streaming cloud to split the RTMP to 2 destinations then so be it)
Of course I'm on a budget, but I'm not too keen on going to a USB capture card as I've found they arent reliable for a professional use case.
Thanks for reading and I look forward to your response.
