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_Grid21
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I've been running a 980 Ti for a few years now. I do a lot of streaming and I recently upgraded my CPU to an AMD Ryzen 2700. But I was really excited to hear the OBS Studio has been working with the Nvidia SDK to make it work really well with the new NVENC on Turing RTX cards. Now let's be honest, I really don't care all that much about ray tracing, the only reason I would want RTX cards is for the NVENC encoder stuff for rendering videos out of Vegas Pro 16 and OBS Studio. So let me ask this. Should I upgrade to an RTX 20 series and sell my 980 Ti? Or wait for RTX to mature more before making the dive? Or is a GTX 980 Ti a good match for an AMD Ryzen? 

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I would wait for better pricing on rtx cards. Imho

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With that CPU you don't really NEED NVEC? 

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

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8 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

With that CPU you don't really NEED NVEC? 

Well no, But I happen to like Hardware encoding. It takes A LOT of load off my CPU for games I run.

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3 hours ago, _Grid21 said:

But I was really excited to hear the OBS Studio has been working with the Nvidia SDK to make it work really well with the new NVENC on Turing RTX cards.

OBS latest NVENC performance improvement affect all Nvidia card that support NVENC innm.

Turing get graphical improvement where you can use lower bitrate at similar graphic quality.

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This build contains a new implementation of NVIDIA's NVENC encoder in OBS using the new NVIDIA SDK as well as implementing some new performance improvements. Specifically, the main improvement in this build is that frames from OBS are no longer sent to system RAM prior to being sent to the NVENC encoder -- instead, the frames are sent directly from VRAM, which should noticeably reduce resource usage.

 

The quality improvements you may have been hearing about will largely only be seen on Turing GPUs (RTX 20XX), but the performance improvements should be measurable on all GPUs that have NVENC (GTX 6XX and higher).

 

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