CPU Requirements for streaming in 1080p 60 FPS

[Matias_Chambers]

Would an i7 6700K be good enough for streaming an AAA game in 1080p 60 FPS? Would a 5820K be better? Would an i5 6600K be able to handle it? I do not stream, I was just wondering, since I have heard that streaming in 1080p 60 FPS is very demanding. 

[don_svetlio]

The i7 will be more than enough. Even an 8350 with a proper internet connection should be fine

[Starelementpoke]

1 minute ago, Matias_Chambers said:

Would an i7 6700K be good enough for streaming an AAA game in 1080p 60 FPS? Would a 5820K be better? Would an i5 6600K be able to handle it? I do not stream, I was just wondering, since I have heard that streaming in 1080p 60 FPS is very demanding. 

Most budget friendly option from intel would be the 1231v3.

[Ophidio]

i7 will be fine. Whichever one you would prefer. You could try using a 6600k but it may slack off when it actually come to the gaming performance side of things. 

[DiamondRyce]

Any i7 would be better to stream with. Hell I still see people with i7 2600 and 2700 running their streams.

 

I just bought a i7 3770 used for $170 USD on eBay which is about the price that a i5 4690k is going for on hardwareswap and ebay. 

 

  

[Matias_Chambers]

It seems like nobody read that I do not stream lol

[Starelementpoke]

Just now, Matias_Chambers said:

It seems like nobody read that I do not stream lol

Question is still answered.

[Stardar1]

4 minutes ago, Matias_Chambers said:

Would an i7 6700K be good enough for streaming an AAA game in 1080p 60 FPS? Would a 5820K be better? Would an i5 6600K be able to handle it? I do not stream, I was just wondering, since I have heard that streaming in 1080p 60 FPS is very demanding. 

as @Starelementpokesaid, the Xeon E3-1231 v3 is your most budget friendly option. Generally speaking, having 8 threads for streaming is nice, as you have the game and stream software on separate cores, but an i5 can stream quite a few games, so it depends on specific use. 

[DiamondRyce]

1 minute ago, Matias_Chambers said:

It seems like nobody read that I do not stream lol

Yes but your title is asking for CPU requirements hence why everyone is doing cpu options 

[Matias_Chambers]

1 minute ago, Starelementpoke said:

Question is still answered.

Yeah I know

[Sir Asvald]

7 minutes ago, Matias_Chambers said:

Would an i7 6700K be good enough for streaming an AAA game in 1080p 60 FPS? Would a 5820K be better? Would an i5 6600K be able to handle it? I do not stream, I was just wondering, since I have heard that streaming in 1080p 60 FPS is very demanding. 

I've got an i5 4690. I can only stream and record at 720p 60fps. Which is okay, because I upscale my videos in Adobe Premiere Pro 1080p 60fps. As the others have said, Xeon 1231v3 would work much better because it's budget friendly. I'm also thinking of gettin the Xeon. 

[Bastian]

I think the best budget option is an Intel Core i5 along with QuickSync (in OBS).

For me it works flawless (I've got an i5 4440 and a seperate GPU for the games obviously)

[BrightCandle]

As far as I know OBS Studio allows you to use Quicksync or NVENC and hence most of the heavy lifting is done by the video encoding engine on your CPU or GPU and hence now we are looking at a lot less load for streaming than we were even just 6 months ago. Its really a vast improvement, it almost completely replaces Shadowplay as well because it can do multiple audio streams and its got similarly zero overhead. I don't know what the additional load is but my initial experience with OBS studio was it has exactly the same impact as Shadowplay, ie more or less nothing.