Streaming with AMD GPU

[Baiter]

I was wondering if people who have a AMD graphics card and streams what their experience is like. I’ve read that it can be possible with some tweaks here and there but ultimately if I wanted to stream Nvidia was the safer way to go. My goal is too stream on 1440p and I currently use OBS. 

[Akira Shimazu]

2 minutes ago, Baiter said:

I was wondering if people who have a AMD graphics card and streams what their experience is like. I’ve read that it can be possible with some tweaks here and there but ultimately if I wanted to stream Nvidia was the safer way to go. My goal is too stream on 1440p and I currently use OBS. 

more CPU and ram Intensive. unless you process with gpu

[Roswell]

Unless there have been serious advancements in Nvidia's NVENC encoder, using a card to encode a stream still looks awful. 

 

1440p is also out of the question, at least for twitch. They cap your bit rate to 6Mbit. 

[Baiter]

2 minutes ago, Vitamanic said:

Unless there have been serious advancements in Nvidia's NVENC encoder, using a card to encode a stream still looks awful. 

 

1440p is also out of the question, at least for twitch. They cap your bit rate to 6Mbit. 

Oh okay good to know thnx

[PlayStation 2]

I've done streaming with my RX 580 on YouTube before and the results were alright. Just make sure your upload speeds are up to snuff if you're doing YouTube streaming.

[Roswell]

3 minutes ago, Baiter said:

Oh okay good to know thnx

What processor do you have? Software encoding is usually fine without a big penalty if you're using a 6+ core chip.

[Baiter]

3700x 

2 hours ago, Vitamanic said:

What processor do you have? Software encoding is usually fine without a big penalty if you're using a 6+ core chip.

 

[The1Dickens]

14 hours ago, Vitamanic said:

Unless there have been serious advancements in Nvidia's NVENC encoder, using a card to encode a stream still looks awful. 

 

1440p is also out of the question, at least for twitch. They cap your bit rate to 6Mbit. 

My experience says otherwise, as I have streamed at UHD at over 8Mbits (I think as high as 10 or 12 during some testing) using NVENC on my 1080Ti. The reasons why you shouldn't go at that resolution are plenty, but it's not because Twitch won't outright allow you.

 

15 hours ago, Baiter said:

I was wondering if people who have a AMD graphics card and streams what their experience is like. I’ve read that it can be possible with some tweaks here and there but ultimately if I wanted to stream Nvidia was the safer way to go. My goal is too stream on 1440p and I currently use OBS. 

What games are you trying to stream? If they are fast-paced games (like Warframe), you'd be better off running them at 1080p (or even 720p) at 60fps. If it's a slow-paced game that is meant to be a visual treat, then you could go for 1080p or maybe 1440p at 30fps, but remember that most viewers probably won't have a 1440p monitor, let alone your stream full-screened, so it would be unnecessary processing. Though, it is also less resource intensive on your end to stream at whatever your monitor resolution is (canvas and broadcast resolution in OBS Video settings). It really depends on the types of games you play.

 

I've not got around to playing with an AMD card, though. My experiences are with 2x 970s in SLI originally, and then later a single 1080Ti.

[Roswell]

37 minutes ago, The1Dickens said:

My experience says otherwise, as I have streamed at UHD at over 8Mbits (I think as high as 10 or 12 during some testing) using NVENC on my 1080Ti. The reasons why you shouldn't go at that resolution are plenty, but it's not because Twitch won't outright allow you.

Except they actually outright won't allow you to: 

 

https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/guide-to-broadcast-health-and-using-twitch-inspector?language=en_US#HowtoSetaProperBitrate

 

You can upload even at 100Mbit if you want, but you're still going to get encoded and throttled down on their end at 6Mbit.

[The1Dickens]

13 minutes ago, Vitamanic said:

Except they actually outright won't allow you to: 

 

https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/guide-to-broadcast-health-and-using-twitch-inspector?language=en_US#HowtoSetaProperBitrate

 

You can upload even at 100Mbit if you want, but you're still going to get encoded and throttled down on their end at 6Mbit.

Again, my experience says that is incorrect. Through the dashboard, the video stats while live, and r-1.ch site for channel health stats. They don't "throttle you down to 6Mbits on their end" because that would consume resources. Affiliates get transcodes sometimes, and partners get it all the time. That's the only time they transcode whatever someone is broadcasting. Otherwise, your channel is at whatever bitrate you are broadcasting at.

[Baiter]

On 12/25/2019 at 11:25 PM, The1Dickens said:

My experience says otherwise, as I have streamed at UHD at over 8Mbits (I think as high as 10 or 12 during some testing) using NVENC on my 1080Ti. The reasons why you shouldn't go at that resolution are plenty, but it's not because Twitch won't outright allow you.

 

What games are you trying to stream? If they are fast-paced games (like Warframe), you'd be better off running them at 1080p (or even 720p) at 60fps. If it's a slow-paced game that is meant to be a visual treat, then you could go for 1080p or maybe 1440p at 30fps, but remember that most viewers probably won't have a 1440p monitor, let alone your stream full-screened, so it would be unnecessary processing. Though, it is also less resource intensive on your end to stream at whatever your monitor resolution is (canvas and broadcast resolution in OBS Video settings). It really depends on the types of games you play.

 

I've not got around to playing with an AMD card, though. My experiences are with 2x 970s in SLI originally, and then later a single 1080Ti.

Mostly would be Apex legends, COD, BFV, FFXIV and some RPGs here and there but mostly shooters and MMO

[The1Dickens]

6 hours ago, Baiter said:

Mostly would be Apex legends, COD, BFV, FFXIV and some RPGs here and there but mostly shooters and MMO

Yeah, for those FPS games, I'd say go with something like 720p at 60fps. I recall reading stats for Twitch viewers that said very few make a stream full-screen, and since the vast majority of folks have 1080p monitors, anything higher would be wasted. I believe the normal window is 75% of your display's resolution. And FPS games like high frame-rates, the 60fps would still make the stream feel higher quality. And for the RPGs, if you want to show off the fidelity, you can do 1080p30, at the same bitrate.