Question / Help What should be the best NVEnc settings for 1080p/60 streaming?

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I am trying to figure out the right profile for NVEnc that gives me the best quality without affecting much performance if any. So far I tried and it affects my performance noticeably, something Shadowplay does not. I was hoping you guys can recommend me a good NVEnc profile for streaming 1080p/60 to Youtube.

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Streaming 1080@ 60 is way to hungry bandwidth wise in my opinion and you need a good 5000 bitrate and more for 264 codec and prob near double that with nvenc, that is of course if you want to be able to play fast paced games too and them look good. Nvenc is best left on auto and pump the bandwidth up, it loves it.
 
That's very odd as as little as I have used it with my 970 I don't see any performance issues. Sorry I can not be more help hopefully someone with better nvenc knowledge will be able to assist you further.
 
It is definitely no where near as bad as CPU encoding, but jumping from shadowplay to this and playing mgsv, there is a ever so slight difference in fps or frame time - it is simply not as smooth.
 
I have an idea as it is hindering me too on the 264 encoding within obs, are you using windows 10 as that doesn't seem as compatable with obs and stutters and appears less smooth. If you aren't using windows 10 then I still don't know. Just trying to help you eliminate what it could be.
 
lee said:
I have an idea as it is hindering me too on the 264 encoding within obs, are you using windows 10 as that doesn't seem as compatable with obs and stutters and appears less smooth. If you aren't using windows 10 then I still don't know. Just trying to help you eliminate what it could be.
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Yes I am on Windows 10
 
Probably 12mbps or so, given the extremely poor compression NVENC provides.
Yes, you're going to see some performance issues. For one, nvidia doesn't allow full access to some of the back-end stuff their official Shadowplay uses (because nvidia has a stiffy for proprietary things), like the framebuffer capture methods. Until nvidia stop screwing around, it's going to be an issue. This isn't something OBS can fix, complain to Big Green.

Lee, 5000kbps is too low even for x264 encoding on 1080@60. You're looking at around 6000 just for watchable video.
 
FerretBomb yeah i agree unless you encode at a higher compression like medium then it makes a shed load of difference which is why I said at least 5000. TBH I would never recommend over 720@60 for none partners anyway. It's just mot worth it at a rubbish 3500 bitrate max with no transcoding.
 
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