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Minimum card for NVEHC encoded streaming/recording

Toothless

Toothless

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So my girlfriend wants to get into streaming and videos but we're trying not to spend a bunch of cash into this. I don't know which exact games she wants to do but her 4790k can take them all quite well, with just the game up. I know with OBS you can pick which GPU to encode with and I do have a spare 750Ti sitting here. I'm sure she'll be at 1080p/60 which is fine and all but due to board limitations it would be best to use a single slot GPU like a GT1030.

Do I instead of all of this, attempt using the iGPU for quicksync? Last time I ran it the monitor had problems but I don't believe it needs to display an image to be used. Should I see about a cheap GT1030?
 
Toothless said:
So my girlfriend wants to get into streaming and videos but we're trying not to spend a bunch of cash into this. I don't know which exact games she wants to do but her 4790k can take them all quite well, with just the game up. I know with OBS you can pick which GPU to encode with and I do have a spare 750Ti sitting here. I'm sure she'll be at 1080p/60 which is fine and all but due to board limitations it would be best to use a single slot GPU like a GT1030.

Do I instead of all of this, attempt using the iGPU for quicksync? Last time I ran it the monitor had problems but I don't believe it needs to display an image to be used. Should I see about a cheap GT1030?
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What GPU does she already have? Don't need to have a separate GPU for the encode. It uses a totally separate piece of hardware in the chip than the rest of what the games would use.

Also she won't be able to run the bitrate to make 1080p/60 look good. 720p or 900p at 4500-5500 bitrate
 
MxPhenom 216 said:
What GPU does she already have? Don't need to have a separate GPU for the encode. It uses a totally separate piece of hardware in the chip than the rest of what the games would use.

Also she won't be able to run the bitrate to make 1080p/60 look good. 720p or 900p at 4500-5500 bitrate
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1070Ti. The iGPU seems to be working fine and doing a test stream shows it can handle 1080/60 at about 60-70% usage while keeping a good image.
 
Toothless said:
1070Ti. The iGPU seems to be working fine and doing a test stream shows it can handle 1080/60 at about 60-70% usage while keeping a good image.
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Just use the encoder in the 1070ti. And dont use 1080/60. The pixelation at the bitrate limit youll be stuck at on (Twitch) before being Partnered will be pretty bad for games with a lot of motion.
 
TheLostSwede said:
Not true, that list is just current cards.
See the Wikipedia link. Again, it depends which codec the OP is looking to use.
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Would be just NVENC, however if I were to get into this I might need something different due to resolution size.
MxPhenom 216 said:
Just use the encoder in the 1070ti. And dont use 1080/60. The pixelation at the bitrate limit youll be stuck at on (Twitch) before being Partnered will be pretty bad for games with a lot of motion.
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I'll give it a try, thank you.
 
Toothless said:
Would be just NVENC, however if I were to get into this I might need something different due to resolution size.
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That's an encoder, not a codec.
Are you going to encode in H.264, H.265 or VP9? The latter two use a lot less bandwidth, but I'm not sure if either can be used for streaming.
 
TheLostSwede said:
That's an encoder, not a codec.
Are you going to encode in H.264, H.265 or VP9? The latter two use a lot less bandwidth, but I'm not sure if either can be used for streaming.
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O my bad. H.264.
 
Toothless said:
O my bad. H.264.
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So then the 750Ti would do, if you want to try using a second card for the encoding.
A 1030 doesn't have any form of encoder, so that would be useless.
 
TheLostSwede said:
So then the 750Ti would do, if you want to try using a second card for the encoding.
A 1030 doesn't have any form of encoder, so that would be useless.
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So 750Ti or better would be preferred? What's the limit on age? (Say, a GTX560?)
 
Toothless said:
So 750Ti or better would be preferred? What's the limit on age? (Say, a GTX560?)
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It helps if you read the information provided...

Nvidia NVENC - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
600-series seems to be the oldest you can go. Ideally a 900-series card or newer if you want good codec support.
These are off limits, as they don't have an encoder.
www.techpowerup.com

NVIDIA GM108 GPU Specs

384 Cores, 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs
www.techpowerup.com www.techpowerup.com
 
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