Youtube GPU comparisons

[wackywobbler]

Hi just a quick question, I've heard that watching youtube GPU comparisons does not give you a realistic idea of what a game will look like in  real life. Something to do with compression on youtube or something.

 

Think there is any truth to this or is it BS? because I use these vids to help decide what gpu to get.

 

Thank's in advance for any help.

 

P.S. I'm not talking about FPS or gpu% or anything just image quality

[Curufinwe_wins]

3 minutes ago, wackywobbler said:

Hi just a quick question, I've heard that watching youtube GPU comparisons does not give you a realistic idea of what a game will look like in  real life. Something to do with compression on youtube or something.

 

Think there is any truth to this or is it BS? because I use these vids to help decide what gpu to get.

 

Thank's in advance for any help.

Unfortunately image compression and bit rate is so low on youtube that even 4k videos look worse than most games on 1080p.

 

Just my two cents.

[Frosty]

Any video streaming service will have compression and this will adversely impact image quality. While you can sometime turn up the quality to 1440p or 4k to partially alleviate this it will still be present. Youtube is definitely one of these, due the sheer amount of data it needs to handle. If you want to see image quality comparisons at certain settings, screenshots is probably the best way to go. 

 

You can however get a good idea of how a card will perform from youtube.

[tomaatvk]

The compression youtube does just makes the game look worse than in real life but it does not affect the test results you see in those videos. The videos will give you a good result of the GPU performance.

 

However, one thing they barely ever measure in those videos is frame call time and if you often have peaks in frame call time it will give a worse experience as which you might expect from the FPS numbers they hand you. For example, if it has 60 average FPS but it sometimes has a small freeze of like 1/10th of a second because of some GPU problems it will give a worse experience as 50 average FPS without those things.

[Neroglance]

There is truth to it.  As youtube requires compression when uploading videos so your not seeing things as the actually uploader is probably recording it at.  Take a 4k video for example on youtube only lets your do I think 60mbps for a 60fps video and I record at double that bitrate.  So you will not actually see what the actually person records see's so you just take it with a grain of salt as it will look better in person.

 

Like @tomaatvk said things such as frame time variance and the lowest fps a gpu has during the game play is the biggest things besides its average fps because if a game can average a good 60 fps but has dips down to 20 fps at times then it can make the game unenjoyable.  Along with the frametime variance as it takes longer to produce some frames unlike others.  The idea is to have a nice even line in a perfect world but having big spikes here and there is things you would notice in games and cause your stutters.

[TidaLWaveZ]

Well if your watching a video of someone playing a game at 4k 144hz G-sync (just as an example) you're not going to get nearly the same effect watching the video over the internet on a 1080p 60hz screen, especially after the screen capture/youtube compression.  You just don't get the full benefit of viewing it how it is in person.

 

[Neroglance]

1 minute ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

Well if your watching a video of someone playing a game at 4k 144hz G-sync (just as an example) your not going to get the same effect watching the video over the internet on a 1080p 60hz screen, especially after the screen capture/youtube compression.  You just don't get the full benefit of viewing it how it is in person.

 

I know its a example but I wish there was a 4k 144hz GSync screen I would be throwing money at it to get off 60hz 4k as its a huge difference coming from fast refresh screens.

[wackywobbler]

Thanks a lot for the help guy. I got a lot more information than I thought that was all helpful.

 

Much appreciated

[TidaLWaveZ]

2 minutes ago, Neroglance said:

I know its a example but I wish there was a 4k 144hz GSync screen I would be throwing money at it to get off 60hz 4k as its a huge difference coming from fast refresh screens.

Lol, I wish there was too even though I couldn't afford it.