Do I need a capture card for streaming

[Gamingisamust]

Finaly decided I'm going with this ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2060 Super Advanced Overclocked EVO 8G GDDR6 HDMI DisplayPort USB Type-C Gaming Graphics Card (ROG-STRIX-RTX2060S-A8G-EVO-GAMING). Am I going to need a capture card I feel I want to stream my gameplay?

[Streetguru]

5 minutes ago, Gamingisamust said:

Finaly decided I'm going with this ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2060 Super Advanced

just load up OBS and change the encoder to NVENC.

 

look at the channel Epos Vox otherwise

[royalarcher3]

i dont think so. it just frees up the cpu so you both get more frames in your games and to stream at a higher quality.

[Fasauceome]

GeForce experience, which you may have used to download your drivers, has a full suite of features for recording gameplay.

[Gamingisamust]

Thanks guys

[Streetguru]

10 minutes ago, royalarcher3 said:

i dont think so. it just frees up the cpu so you both get more frames in your games and to stream at a higher quality.

A capture card doesn't do any work to encode the signal, your CPU or GPU still has to do the work, it just lets you add things like consoles or cameras to the stream.

[papajo]

You dont need to have a capture card but if you gonna want to be serious about streaming your games you should get one since it a capture card will lead to higher/more stable FPS (because your CPU and GPU are not going to get stressed for streaming) and it will have better quality (Nvenc is good but still compressed)

 

My suggestion is to just use nvenc and if you are satisfied hold on to it.  

[Mick Naughty]

A capture card still uses and taxes the system. So it’s gonna end up being the same. For a single pc setup. 
Not like it does anything by itself. 
Id pass on getting one now and just use a program like obs.