AMD or Nvidia for recording/streaming

[iLikeBananas]

So I am considering upgrading my gpu and was wondering if I should go with AMD or Nvidia. Asking because I never owned a Nvidia card before. My first self build computer had a Radeon HD 6950 in it, I later upgraded to a Vega64. And that's what I am currently using. I was Toying with the idea of buying a RTX 3070 TI, but since I don't care about ray tracing I was wondering if I could get similar performance out of a AMD card for a cheaper price. My only question is, does going with AMD come with other drawbacks? Or am I missing out if I don't go with Nvidia? Here are the prices in my country:

 

3070 TI

 

 

3080

 

 

RX 6800

 

 

RX 6800 XT

 

 

 

Budget (including currency): 690€ but the less I spend, the happier I am.

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: playing mostly older games, cs:go, Mordhau, occasionally Darktide and Forza Horizon 5.

Other details: got two 1440p Monitors with 144hz.

 

[Middcore]

Nvidia's NVENC encoder used to be significantly better than AMD's encoder but now they're pretty close with Nvidia still having a slight edge.

 

I am pretty sure that most people who are "serious" about recording/streaming (IE do it professionally) have a setup where encoding is handling on a CPU, with some of course even having a whole separate streaming PC to take the load off the PC running the game.

 

It kind of comes down to how "serious" you are about streaming/recording to decide how much that capability on the GPU matters to you versus other concerns like performance for money.