Nvec or h264 streaming nowadays

andybeech · February 4, 2019

Hi so streaming I know a lot of people use h264 as there encorder for streaming as it is better performance and a good balance to allow viewers to see your content. Now is this still the case with newer GPUs and cpus or is nvec May of missed a letter not sure a better way to go.

im running a amd 6100 fx old I know a 1060 gtx 3gb wf oc 12gb ram for my dedicated stream rig, so nvec or h264.? Which is better for viewers and performance also 220mb download 21mb upload. Thanks

Alex Atkin UK · February 4, 2019

NVENC is not great quality, its passable on RTX cards at high bitrates (such as Steam in-home streaming at ~25Mbit) but sucks for streaming to the web compared to H264.

On your CPU however I doubt you have any choice but to use it as H264 would be completely unusable.

andybeech · February 5, 2019

8 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

NVENC is not great quality, its passable on RTX cards at high bitrates (such as Steam in-home streaming at ~25Mbit) but sucks for streaming to the web compared to H264.

On your CPU however I doubt you have any choice but to use it as H264 would be completely unusable.

Ok thanks what are you suggesting is better for me to use?

Alex Atkin UK · February 6, 2019

16 hours ago, andybeech said:

Ok thanks what are you suggesting is better for me to use?

Sorry, I kinda missed the "dedicated" part so it might not be quite as bleak as I made out. But really the only way to know for sure is to try.

andybeech · February 6, 2019

7 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Sorry, I kinda missed the "dedicated" part so it might not be quite as bleak as I made out. But really the only way to know for sure is to try.

Haha and ok I’ll have a play with settings as it is on nvenc and I didn’t realise till I checked, I have got a Avermedia capture card in there too.