Question / Help Skylake Core i7-6700K or 6700 for streaming?

[Xkillerz]

Dear OBS forum,

At this point I use a i5 4440 to stream games with its ok but not a smooth experience as someone using a i7 4790k and people often say the viewing experience got laggy parts.

Soon I like to upgrade my computer and I will by buying a skylake i7. Now my question. Will the 6700 by enough to stream 60 fps 1080? And how this reflect to higher graphical games? The normal 6700 lower then the 4790k while the 6700k can do more then the 4790k but score gap is not that huge. While the 6700 6700k got a 2k pass test gap.

http://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_core_i7_6700-520-vs-intel_core_i7_6700k-518 vursus link.

i7 6700 = 3,4 Ghz

i7 6700k = 4.0 Ghz

i7 4790k = 4.0 Ghz

I know the new cpus are not buyable at this point off posting but using the 4790k as reference.

So what must I choose give out 350$ for the i7 6700 or go just for 600 hz more for the i7 6700k 400$? Thanks.

 

[CritVV]

I heard the i7 6700k is supposed to be 17 percent better than the i7 4790k is. But we dont know the pricing yet. If the new skylake platform will be about as expensive as the haswell platform is then I'd go for the i7 6700k. It will also depend on when you wanna buy your components though, because skylake will not air before Q3 this year I heard.

 

[Xkillerz]

I heard the i7 6700k is supposed to be 17 percent better than the i7 4790k is. But we dont know the pricing yet. If the new skylake platform will be about as expensive as the haswell platform is then I'd go for the i7 6700k. It will also depend on when you wanna buy your components though, because skylake will not air before Q3 this year I heard.

Thanks for the reply. http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2015/2015063001_Pre-order_prices_of_Skylake_desktop_CPUs.html prices are here?

5 aug will by the official annoucement. But I got patience thill september oktober.

Can the current i7 4790k handle 60 fps 1080 like well or with trouble?

 

[CritVV]

Hmm, pricing seems about the same as the i7 4790k. I'd go for the i7 6700k then, if you are patient enough to wait for the release of course. The i7 4790k can handle 1080p 60 fps encoding very well yes. The i7 6700k probably even better.

 

[FerretBomb]

Very few systems are able to run 1080p@60fps at all, and none without using the Superfast or Ultrafast encoder (which look very poor) in a single-PC setup. I highly doubt that the 6700 series will change this.

Also bear in mind that unless you are a Partnered caster, due to realistic bitrate constraints, you aren't going to be able to even run 1080p@30; it's advised that non-partners stay at or below 2000kbps due to the lack of transcodes (quality options), as most Twitch viewers can watch smoothly at that rate; more and more will buffer, stutter, and have major problems even going to 2500kbps, much less the 3000-3500 for 1080@30, even less the 6000kbps (well into "here there be dragons" territory as far as the ingests being able to handle the incoming stream to begin with) needed to run 1080p@60.

You'll definitely get a boost from the faster processor, but it'll mostly come from being able to use a slower preset (and therefore better quality encoding) to get better image fidelity from the bitrate available.

tl;dr: Even if you have a processor that can handle it, it won't change the bitrate requirements you have to work with.

 

[Harold]

I'd get the "K" variant mainly for the better overclocking potential combined with the higher thermal tolerances.