GPU for screen recording

[oskar23]

Hey. 

I heard nvidia cards have feaure that allows you to record the screen so cpu is not stressed.

Any particular card for that task? Im running 3 screens right now on my old gpu from amd. So im sure any new nvidia gpu will run them as well but I would have to record 4k 43" screen for few hours. Or some parts of that screen. Not sure yet but i would need something that wouldn't lag while u do it. 

[bellabichon]

I assume you're talking about Nvidia ShadowPlay? It'll work fine on any 10XX GPU or later. 

[AlwaysFSX]

Literally any modern card has the NVENC encoder in it.

[oskar23]

10 minutes ago, bellabichon said:

I assume you're talking about Nvidia ShadowPlay? It'll work fine on any 10XX GPU or later. 

Yeah.

I guess i cant do it or r9 390?

 

If anything i will go for something like rtx 2060.or.70

[bellabichon]

6 minutes ago, oskar23 said:

I guess i cant do it or r9 390?

No, unfortunately. The feature is specific to Nvidia GPUs.

6 minutes ago, oskar23 said:

If anything i will go for something like rtx 2060.or.70

That could work. Like I said, everything down to even a 1050 supports the feature, so you might be able to save some money by going used. Obviously if you're recording in 4K, a 1050 isn't going to work very well, though. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, oskar23 said:

Yeah.

I guess i cant do it or r9 390?

 

If anything i will go for something like rtx 2060.or.70

amd has their own encoder but its not as good. Programs like obs will use it.

 

Are you recording games or other programs?

[oskar23]

Not a games

 Just screen while working and cpu is loaded.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, oskar23 said:

Not a games

 Just screen while working and cpu is loaded.

yea the amd gpu should be able to do that fine.

 

What program are you using?

 

Even with cpu, just set it to the super fast preset, and high bitrate, and compress it better later on.

[AlwaysFSX]

21 minutes ago, bellabichon said:

No, unfortunately. The feature is specific to Nvidia GPUs.

That could work. Like I said, everything down to even a 1050 supports the feature, so you might be able to save some money by going used. Obviously if you're recording in 4K, a 1050 isn't going to work very well, though. 

1050 is more than enough to record 4k natively. There's not a huge gpu load for it.

[Tanaz]

1050 or a Quadro P400 are the minimum for 4K@50mpbs recording. You can pick a GPU to record with in OBS (0 being the default one and 1  being the secondary) and you're good to go. I used to do this with 2 Nvidia GPUs just to releave stress of my main GPU while streaming/recording. It should work with AMD+Nvidia too.

[bellabichon]

38 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

1050 is more than enough to record 4k natively. There's not a huge gpu load for it.

True, but it depends what OP's doing while recording. A 1050 also happens to be a pretty terrible value for a GPU, unless you can find one used for very cheap. 

[AlwaysFSX]

9 minutes ago, bellabichon said:

True, but it depends what OP's doing while recording. A 1050 also happens to be a pretty terrible value for a GPU, unless you can find one used for very cheap. 

Recording a desktop might be what.. <5% gpu usage? Especially if there isn't any transforming going on. I used a 950 to upscale 1080p->4k and it was suuuuuuper low GPU usage.