AMD GPU hardware encoder Vs X264 software encoder?

[Muhammad Osama]

Hey guyz.

Sorry for my bad english.

 

I have a pretty old machine.. the specs are :

Xeon X5670 @4.20 ghz on asus p6t mobo

12 gb ddr3 ram in triple channel

rx 570 4gb

 

now the problem is i am streaming on youtube for quite a while but now i am trying to tweek the quality a little bit of my stream.. so now i m using the following major settings in streamlabs OBS..

 

Bitrate : 3500

Encoder : x264 software

Fast preset

 

now i am not sure some people in the chat are suggesting me.to use an amd hardware encoder.. the reviews  i heared about amd encoder are not really good.. so i wanna ask is it better then x264? 

 

i wanna get a temporary solution for my quality.. i will upgrade my gpu to nvidia for NVENC encoder.. but i need some time.for that and i cannot stop streaming right now so anyone who will help me i will really appreciate that 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Why not test it? You already have all the hardware, do a arecording and see whata looks better.

 

But from my testing of the amd encoder, x264 fast will probaby look better.

[Muhammad Osama]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Why not test it? You already have all the hardware, do a arecording and see whata looks better.

 

But from my testing of the amd encoder, x264 fast will probaby look better.

Just wanna make things easier for me that's why..

But thanks for your reply really appreciate it

 

[Jurrunio]

X264 fast should look better, at the cost of much higher hardware usage

[Muhammad Osama]

6 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

X264 fast should look better, at the cost of much higher hardware usage

I saw my cpu to go as much as 80% while streaming apex.. yes i am getting lower fps then i should but that is not that different streaming from the same system will always cost some fps

[Jurrunio]

24 minutes ago, Muhammad Osama said:

I saw my cpu to go as much as 80% while streaming apex.. yes i am getting lower fps then i should but that is not that different streaming from the same system will always cost some fps

in theory hardware encoing shouldnt cost you any fps, since it's handled by dedicated hardware and not the stream processors.

[Muhammad Osama]

8 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

in theory hardware encoing shouldnt cost you any fps, since it's handled by dedicated hardware and not the stream processors.

But then the quality will drop significantly .. due to the poor amd encoder.. i think i am fine with those fps which i am getting with x264.. it never drops below 60.. yeah i know it's not ideal for streaming but it's not that bad