NVENC vs Shadowplay

[JaZoN_XD]

Hi everyone, I know this is probably a noob question, but what's the difference between OBS's NVENC vs Nvidia's Shadowplay? How do the performance differ? I was planning to try out using QSV for recording in OBS, but I found a comparison video online of the options and it seems like that NVENC performs a bit better than QSV. Thanks.

[DXMember]

nvenc uses the same hardware acceleration as shadowplay

[Bananasplit_00]

you cant use shadowplay with AMD cards

[JaZoN_XD]

nvenc uses the same hardware acceleration as shadowplay

So they are essentially the same performance and quality wise (unless you force the bitrate in OBS to be higher than shadowplay)?

[DXMember]

So they are essentially the same performance and quality wise (unless you force the bitrate in OBS to be higher than shadowplay)?

or lower

yes

 

you can also use Interl Quick Sync

[JaZoN_XD]

or lower

yes

 

you can also use Interl Quick Sync

What do you mean by lower? "Shadowplay has same or lower quality" or "OBS has same or lower quality"? Also, I was planning to use QSV but I found some comparison videos and they all show that NVENC is slightly faster and records with less of performance hit. But otherwise, I use QSV for video rendering.

[DXMember]

What do you mean by lower? "Shadowplay has same or lower quality" or "OBS has same or lower quality"? Also, I was planning to use QSV but I found some comparison videos and they all show that NVENC is slightly faster and records with less of performance hit. But otherwise, I use QSV for video rendering.

you can change bitrate for your stream/recording in OBS in Encoding settings, you can set it to be very high or very low

 

by QSV are you reffering to Intel Quick Sync? is then it shouldn't have any performance hit, but if you feel like nvenc is faster then use nvenc

[DXMember]

you cant use shadowplay with AMD cards

shieeee... now i am so very sad and salty =((( Q.Q

[JaZoN_XD]

you can change bitrate for your stream/recording in OBS in Encoding settings, you can set it to be very high or very low

 

by QSV are you reffering to Intel Quick Sync? is then it shouldn't have any performance hit, but if you feel like nvenc is faster then use nvenc

Yes, Intel Quick Sync Video. Actually QSV is slightly slower, not just "feeling like it" because I saw several comparison videos online.

[ivan134]

Yes, Intel Quick Sync Video. Actually QSV is slightly slower, not just "feeling like it" because I saw several comparison videos online.

Can you link some of those videos with the comparisons?

[JaZoN_XD]

shieeee... now i am so very sad and salty =((( Q.Q

haha i feel sorry for you, you don't have QSV OR Nvidia cards for shadowplay 

[JaZoN_XD]

Can you link some of those videos with the comparisons?

 

 

Those are the last two videos that i watched regarding the encoding methods. There are probably many more comparisons out there

[ivan134]

Those are the last two videos that i watched regarding the encoding methods. There are probably many more comparisons out there

Thanks. Turns out I had already watched the 1st video about a year ago or so.