is 4 cores enough for recording gameplay?

[iCHeWiE]

hi. i'm planning on buying a gaming laptop (nitro 5) that has an i5-10300h and an rtx 3060 6gb... can it handle recording gameplay?

 

i was originally planning on building a desktop but i can't find any gpu's.. so i just settled on buying a budget good value gaming laptop instead.. i wish to record gameplay with my friends and edit photos and videos..

thanks in advance

[Levent]

Yes. Its not like world wasnt recording gameplay before we had 8 cores in "gaming" machines. 

1 minute ago, iCHeWiE said:

can it handle recording gameplay?

yes

[Skiiwee29]

Depends on the games being recorded. 4core CPUs are pretty much obsolete for gaming in general and are a bottleneck in most AAA games these days. 

[Chris Pratt]

Just now, Levent said:

Yes. Its not like world wasnt recording gameplay before we had 8 cores in "gaming" machines. 

yes

True, but games used to not be as demanding on the CPU in the past as well.

 

You might be able to pull it off with quad core, depending on the games you're streaming, but no, that's generally not considered enough. Though, if you have an Nvidia card with NVENC, then that will help considerably.

 

[iCHeWiE]

3 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

True, but games used to not be as demanding on the CPU in the past as well.

 

You might be able to pull it off with quad core, depending on the games you're streaming, but no, that's generally not considered enough. Though, if you have an Nvidia card with NVENC, then that will help considerably.

 

the laptop i'm planning on buying has a 3060 6gb.. will that do?

[Chris Pratt]

Just now, iCHeWiE said:

the laptop i'm planning on buying has a 3060 6gb.. will that do?

It has NVENC, so as long as whatever you're using to stream supports that, you'll probably be fine.

[iCHeWiE]

1 minute ago, Chris Pratt said:

It has NVENC, so as long as whatever you're using to stream supports that, you'll probably be fine.

that's good to know... thank you , star lord

[curiousmind34]

13 minutes ago, iCHeWiE said:

the laptop i'm planning on buying has a 3060 6gb.. will that do?

4 cores becomes irrelvant in this case, it has nvenc so the gpu will encode with barely any loss in performance

[iCHeWiE]

23 minutes ago, curiousmind34 said:

4 cores becomes irrelvant in this case, it has nvenc so the gpu will encode with barely any loss in performance

thank you. i totally forgot about nvenc when i posted this.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

If you don't strictly need portability, you can get desktops with 30 series in prebuilts.

[Moonzy]

Depends on the game, some games yes, some games no, even with nvenc

[Lord Szechenyi]

3 hours ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Depends on the games being recorded. 4core CPUs are pretty much obsolete for gaming in general and are a bottleneck in most AAA games these days. 

no that's not true, my i3-10100 is doing very well in modern games.

(my gtx 1070 though, isn't)

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to PC Gaming

[QuantumSingularity]

Also depends on what quality and resolution he is going to play and record. 720p - sure no problem, 1080p - it will be a struggle with most modern AAA titles. Cyberpunk for example at 1080p with High/Ultra details takes 7GB+ of VRAM. That's why the new gen of AMD cards have 16 and 12 Gigs of VRAM, cause you'll need 10Gigs+ for 1440p which AMD are focusing on. I really doubt that 6Gig 3060 is gonna handle everything fine at 1080p unless it's stuff like CS:GO, Fortnite and the usual low-tier games.

[Zulu-Cheese-Alpha-IV]

4 cores and 8 threads is more likely....

 

Not a true 4 core.

 

Will run any recent game just fine on 60hz. Use NVENC or AMD-VCE