Intel 8700k vs Ryzen 3600 for streaming

[Fictionvl]

Hello LTT,

 

I have a dual PC setup, my gaming PC has a 8700k, 32gb ram and a 5700 XT, streaming PC has a Ryzen 5 3600, 32gb of ram and a GTX 1660

 

I'll be upgrading my current gaming PC to an i9 10900k and the upcoming 3090 and I was wondering if its worth changing my streaming PC's CPU to my 8700k?

 

I stream 1080p 60FPS at medium preset and 8Mbps and it looks beautiful though I was wondering if I can get better peroformance while streaming and run more programs like chrome and such on my streaming PC while streaming.

 

so should I make the switch or just sell the 8700k and the motherboard?

[Mateyyy]

Why not just use NVENC when you upgrade to 3090, instead of going through a separate streaming rig? Less power, less hassle and possibly better quality.

[Haro]

the 3600 and 8700k will perform similarly in terms of streaming. not much is going to change, if you still want to set up dual pc's for streaming, just keep the 3600.

or you could use nvec on the 3090 and have only one machine.

[Fictionvl]

Just now, Mateyyy said:

Why not just use NVENC when you upgrade to 3090, instead of going through a separate streaming rig? Less power, less hassle and possibly better quality.

 

Its very convienient for me to use a dual PC setup honestly, less input lag and spikes etc....

 

i dont have to work more if i switch my game or whatever. its really a good flow overall for me

[jaslion]

17 minutes ago, Fictionvl said:

Hello LTT,

 

I have a dual PC setup, my gaming PC has a 8700k, 32gb ram and a 5700 XT, streaming PC has a Ryzen 5 3600, 32gb of ram and a GTX 1660

 

I'll be upgrading my current gaming PC to an i9 10900k and the upcoming 3090 and I was wondering if its worth changing my streaming PC's CPU to my 8700k?

 

I stream 1080p 60FPS at medium preset and 8Mbps and it looks beautiful though I was wondering if I can get better peroformance while streaming and run more programs like chrome and such on my streaming PC while streaming.

 

so should I make the switch or just sell the 8700k and the motherboard?

Performance is pretty much identical.

[Mateyyy]

18 minutes ago, Fictionvl said:

Its very convienient for me to use a dual PC setup honestly, less input lag and spikes etc....

 

i dont have to work more if i switch my game or whatever. its really a good flow overall for me

I see, fair enough.

If you've already got the 3600 set up in your streaming PC, I wouldn't bother swapping it out for the 8700K. It sounds like too much of a hassle to change platforms, reinstall Windows and other things only for a performance benefit that'll probably go unnoticed.

[WereCat]

28 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Performance is pretty much identical.

There are some issues in Windows that makes the performance worse even though it should run fine in theory. 

Dual PC setup is definitely more complicated to setup but once you do it, you're much better off for streaming. 

 

And regarding NVENC vs CPU x264, you can still get better quality with the CPU x264 at 1080p60 Medium and some little tweaks.

Heck, I even managed to do 1080p60 Slow on my 3900X with some custom settings and I still got over 100FPS in game, it looked much better than my cousins NVENC encode on the same bitrate on his RTX 2070.