Question / Help Video card suggestions

[Spectacular_G Productions]

Hello all. I am new here my name is John.

I have been an audio engineer for quite a while and with the current situation I am now faced with learning to live stream band performances from my studio. I have very little knowledge when it comes to both the video and streaming aspects of this new deal.

I have a very nice new windows 10 pro desktop computer that I built 2 months ago. The thing is for audio latency is a huge deal and using the integrated graphics in my Intel cpu/gpu gives better low latency performance than an Nvidia card.

I have done a bunch of reading on this forum and I also have OBS installed. It seems? that adding a decent dedicated video card will help with all of this and if that will truly help? I am fine buying and using one. A quiet one would be great, any suggestions in the sub $200.00 range? I will also say that there is no gaming at all here.

Thanks in advance and have a great day!!
John G
Spectacular_G Productions

 

[Narcogen]

The only audio latency complaints I'm aware of re: Nvidia affects audio sent to the HDMI ports of those cards. Shouldn't impact OBS at all.

For video streaming/recording with OBS right now the best value is a Turing encoder card from Nvidia, of which the least expensive are the 1650 Super or the 1660. The quality of video encoding in that generation of chip is significantly better than the previous one (Nvidia GTX 10x0 series).

 

[FerretBomb]

Also to stress, the 1650 NON-super and Ti have the older, worse NVENC core and should not be picked up for streaming. 1650 Super, 1660, or an RTX card (which you have no need of, with no gaming).

Audio latency can be adjusted pretty easily in OBS, both positive and negative as far as A/V sync on the output. Unless you're talking about live monitoring, which will always have an inherent delay due to how Windows handles audio. Which GPU you use should not affect audio latency though, unless (as Narcogen said) you're using the HDMI audio output instead of your audio device itself.

We'd probably need to know more about which specific audio latency you mean, to be able to advise further.