4k Steam In-Home Streaming

[Kira0666]

On steam's website it says that with a capable host and client pc you can stream your games at 4K 60fps. My main rig is an i9-9900K with a Titan X (Pascal) so it can run 4k games fairly well. Does anyone know how powerful of a client PC is needed? Obviously gigabit lan but cpu and gpu requirements are less clear. 

[Statik]

If anything can do it, a 9900k and Titan X can.

[foldingNoob]

pretty sure you just need something that can play 4k video. I mean that's all it's doing right? If I recall correctly nvidia once made a tablet that could stream from PC.

[GDRRiley]

its mostly about bandwidth between the devices wired is likely needed.

 

[Kira0666]

Yeah makes sense. I'll just cobble together some hardware to test it out. I already have gigabit networking set up so I'll be good there

[Kisai]

4 hours ago, Kira0666 said:

On steam's website it says that with a capable host and client pc you can stream your games at 4K 60fps. My main rig is an i9-9900K with a Titan X (Pascal) so it can run 4k games fairly well. Does anyone know how powerful of a client PC is needed? Obviously gigabit lan but cpu and gpu requirements are less clear. 

It depends what codec is used. Technically any CPU since Sandy Bridge can decode AVC/H264, but at 4K requires 5.2 profile which is Skylake.

 

GPU-wise, it's a bit different https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support-matrix

 

However keep in mind that h264 and h265 support vary. If you want to use h265, the minimum CPU and GPU requirements go up, for both the host and the client.