Streaming potential/comparison

[StephanTW]

So with the rise of streaming and all I am kinda wondering why potential OBS settings aren't a part of current day CPU reviews, and while i know that not every game allows the same access overhead for OBS to stream, i just find it strange there isn't a form of comparison.
As for my real question: What benchmark or what numbers could i use as an indication as to how well it would stream?
I guess I mean to ask what would allow me to go for example, keeping all other settings the same, from using the superfast or veryfast CPU usage to slow or maybe even placebo.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Most of the time, using a hardware encoder on a modern nvidia gpu will provide pretty good quality, without needing gpu power, so it makes much more sense to use use the gpu instead of the gpu here.

 

Using the highest quality presets like very slow and placebo(don't use this it can be worse quality than very slow) provide very little benfit, not worth it for streaming.

 

Is this a pc you want to game + stream on or just stream?

 

What codecs are you working with?

[StephanTW]

Mostly wondering as to what on a CPU dictates how well it stream.
I have 2 r9 290's and ofcourse the current way too high market prices of GPU's i do not intent to upgrade those for the time being, so the Nvec encoder is kinda out of the question.
I might upgrade my i7-5930K as atleast CPU prices aren't that high, but I would prefer to wait and upgrade it all at once, once prices normalice

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 hours ago, StephanTW said:

Mostly wondering as to what on a CPU dictates how well it stream.
I have 2 r9 290's and ofcourse the current way too high market prices of GPU's i do not intent to upgrade those for the time being, so the Nvec encoder is kinda out of the question.
I might upgrade my i7-5930K as atleast CPU prices aren't that high, but I would prefer to wait and upgrade it all at once, once prices normalice

There is alots of benchmarks that show cpu video encoding speeds.

 

Generally more cores + higher clocks = faster encodes.

 

Id keep the 5930k, as there is be very little to no visual difference in getting a faster cpu.

[StephanTW]

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id keep the 5930k, as there is be very little to no visual difference in getting a faster cpu.

yeah, me too. Though I fear I might not have a say in it, after it having been used for almost 7 years now, it sadly is showing its age...
On the other hand, and this might just be an misunderstanding on my end on how 2 outputs using the same parameters are counted in the encoder, I tried to do streaming and recording at the same time and boy did it make the pc stutter.
The recording i would have preferred as that one atleast has multiple audio streams for editing ease.