Question / Help What CPU for streaming and video recording?

[MysticSpade]

Well I personally have a watercooled overclocked AMD FX-8350 holding strong at 4.8ghz without any stability issues. the 8350 is GREAT for streaming and even an intel fanboy reviewer came out and stated this.

 

[Boildown]

Twitch limits non-partnered streams to 3500 bitrate. Its not a hard limit, but if you go over it, they'll eventually label it as "abuse" of their system and ban you. 3500 bitrate is insufficient for 1080p60, and the next logical steps down that look nice at 3500 bitrate are 1080p30 or 720p60.

Only partner streams have lower-bitrate / lower resolution encodes available. Everyone else has to view at the same bitrate that's being sent.

Explain "offload CPU when using a 1 PC setup"? You're making me cry. Encoding on the GPU means less CPU is used. Duh.

 

[DoesAMDSuck]

Explain "offload CPU when using a 1 PC setup"? You're making me cry. Encoding on the GPU means less CPU is used. Duh.

Of course I understand that... It's just that FPS drops because of streaming/recording is often due to an overloaded CPU, so why not always encode from the GPU since it seems like GPUs mostly have some spare performance over, unlike the CPU. How would one change from CPU encoding to GPU encoding?

 

[Boildown]

Explain "offload CPU when using a 1 PC setup"? You're making me cry. Encoding on the GPU means less CPU is used. Duh.

Of course I understand that... It's just that FPS drops because of streaming/recording is often due to an overloaded CPU, so why not always encode from the GPU since it seems like GPUs mostly have some spare performance over, unlike the CPU. How would one change from CPU encoding to GPU encoding?

The encoder built in to particular GPUs are faster at encoding video, but they are worse in image quality per bitrate. Its a tradeoff.

If you have the requisite GPU, you can select it instead of using x264 on the OBS Advanced settings page, where it says "Use Quicksync" or "Use Nvidia NVENC".

 

[Maelas]

Hello,

I apologize I am not totally understanding the 2 pc setup. I have an original XboX, that was gutted and made into a PC using a dual core processor. Cant fit a GPU /cry in it unless i take off the top. Anyway - I am wondering, if I make this my streaming PC - and my gaming rig has a nice GPU - If i decide not to use a Capture card, why would I have to use Quicksync (gaming rig has 3770k)? With a 2 pc setup it sounds like its being encoded 2x. Is this the case?