Question / Help What is the highest setting for streaming (not local recording) with NVENC

[grigorigo]

So yea, my video card is far more superion than my processor, thats why I want to use Nvenc instead of x264 (I know x264 is better, stop it!) and my question is pretty straight forward.. what is the highest setting I can get out of NVENC on obs studio... I want to stick to 1080p 3500bitrate 30 or 60 fps (depends on what game I stream) but I really dont know about the rest.. I got preset at: Default. Profile at: Main and level: Auto. use Two pass encoding is checked out. GPU at 0 and B-frames at 2.

Is there anything else that is better?
what level is the best? 1 or 5.1?
wich profile is better? Main or high?
wich preset is better? default or high quality or idk.
please just shary any info that i can get the most out of streaming with NVENC

 

[Suslik V]

Comparison of x264, NVENC, Quicksync, VCE - there, you can compare some quality and what you able to achieve with different encoders by now (compare videos from the thread to footage you see in your streams). In major cases, Simple settings are good enough.