i5 8250u encoding

[CallMeMysterious]

First off, sorry if I posted this in the wrong topic. I figured since it's somewhat relevant to CPUs, it should be fine. Also sorry for any formatting issues, I'm posting from my phone.

 

So I was looking into getting an external capture card (probably an Elgato HD60S) because when I try to game at over 60fps while streaming from the same computer, OBS has problems rendering frames. I'm pretty sure it's because the GPU is working really hard to render the game then process some of those frames and encode them. 

 

Either way, processing the frames on a different computer will allow me to run the game at over 60fps and offload the encoding and rendering to another computer, in this case I'm thinking about my laptop. Before I decide wether or not to buy a capture card, I'd want to know if my laptop's CPU could handle rendering and encoding the data. 

 

As you probably guessed, the CPU in my laptop is an i5 8250u. It's a quad core eight thread CPU but it's a mobile chip and I think its limited to 15 watts. Its base clock is 1.6 GHz with a turbo of 3.4 GHz but I usually see it around the mid to high 2 GHz range during heavier tasks like rendering a video in Vegas Pro 15.

 

So given that info (I really don't have a way to test it because it doesn't have dedicated graphics) do you all think I could stream with a capture card using my laptop to encode? I'd probably use H.264 because I've had bad experiences with QuickSync (Intel HD encoder)