upgrade Wait or Upgrade (NVIDIA to AMD)

[ItWasEnder]

Hey so I currently have a Ryzen 5 2600 cpu and a GTX 1060 3gb GPU and I was thinking about just buying a Radeon RX Vega 56 as a short upgrade for streaming and playing Triple A games. I stream a lot and edit and the 1060 was my upgrade from a GTX 1030. I bought from my roommate for like $112. The 3gb is not doing me a favor with streaming and I'm getting tired of it. I know that AMD is comming out with the new Navi gpus but I'm not sure if I'm going to even upgrade to them.

 

Also is it worth switching to AMD? I have a free sync monitor but I am taking advantage of the new nvenc encoder. So if you have any input feel free to share it, and thanks in advance.

 

 

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Anyone else have input?

MeatFeastMan

Posted 12 hours ago

Well, you could stream using your cpu instead, and you'd probably get pretty much the same performance with the 2600 as you would with the new nvenc encoder on Turing.

 

Since you do a bit of editing, you'll want the 8gb vram and HBCC that comes on Vega. Here's the one I'd get:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/cKhKHx/sapphire-radeon-rx-vega-56-2gb-pulse-video-card-11276-02-40g

Edited May 20, 2019 by EnderGaming

[MeatFeastMan]

Well, you could stream using your cpu instead, and you'd probably get pretty much the same performance with the 2600 as you would with the new nvenc encoder on Turing.

 

Since you do a bit of editing, you'll want the 8gb vram and HBCC that comes on Vega. Here's the one I'd get:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/cKhKHx/sapphire-radeon-rx-vega-56-2gb-pulse-video-card-11276-02-40g

[GoldenLag]

6 minutes ago, EnderGaming said:

Also is it worth switching to AMD? I have a free sync monitor but I am taking advantage of the new nvenc encoder. So if you have any input feel free to share it, and thanks in advance.

you know the new Nvenc encoder is gtx 1660/ti and RTX only right?

[ItWasEnder]

Just now, MeatFeastMan said:

Well, you could stream using your cpu instead, and you'd probably get pretty much the same performance with the 2600 as you would with the new nvenc encoder on Turing.

 

Since you do a bit of editing, you'll want the 8gb vram and HBCC that comes on Vega. Here's the one I'd get:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/cKhKHx/sapphire-radeon-rx-vega-56-2gb-pulse-video-card-11276-02-40g

  I stream around 4500 bitrate beause of twitch limitations, but if I play like Battlefield V that by itself takes 50% of my CPU and my vram is just gone lol.

[ItWasEnder]

1 minute ago, GoldenLag said:

you know the new Nvenc encoder is gtx 1660/ti and RTX only right?

It still give a slight preformance boost to Pascal/non-turing cards. But it gets all the new features and what not on those.

[GoldenLag]

4 minutes ago, EnderGaming said:

It still give a slight preformance boost to Pascal/non-turing cards. But it gets all the new features and what not on those.

um, that is just OBS. 

 

im reffering to the Nvenc ASIC on the GPU itself who does the encoding. its not the same encoder. and the Turing one is slightly better. 

[ItWasEnder]

6 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

um, that is just OBS. 

 

im reffering to the Nvenc ASIC on the GPU itself who does the encoding. its not the same encoder. and the Turing one is slightly better. 

Alright, I only really care about OBS anyways lol.

[GoldenLag]

2 minutes ago, EnderGaming said:

Alright, I only really care about OBS anyways lol.

its the ASIC that does the encoding. so it affects OBS...........

[ItWasEnder]

8 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

its the ASIC that does the encoding. so it affects OBS...........

Oh dang lol, well doesn't matter either way. I still use nvenc. I've never touched the AMD encoder.

[GoldenLag]

Just now, EnderGaming said:

Oh dang lol, well doesn't matter either way. I still use nvenc. I've never touched the AMD encoder.

AMD encoder is pretty much the same as the old Nvidia Encoder. so its more or less not gonna matter to you