Gpu theory crafting (sort of)

[ismma99]

Hi i was wondering if i could stream with an budget card since i recently got fiber and i was wondering which budget card could i stream with mabey r7 370 or something like that since i can already stream my game with my apu Weird right  but annywho its the intel hd 530 and it streams pretty well but keep in mind the game i stream is kind of old and is on low graphics but can get cpu intensive with the mods so thats why i was wondering if an apu can handle streaming pretty good then a good budget card would and if you would like to see it if you dont belive me i can fire up obs and show you guys and you can djuge the quality if you now are curios thank you. ok the question is what budget card to get?

[Dargenfire]

Just to clarify, are you talking about streaming games with services like Geforce Now? Or about live streaming games to Twitch?

[ismma99]

2 minutes ago, Dargenfire said:

Just to clarify, are you talking about streaming games with services like Geforce Now? Or about live streaming games to Twitch?

Twitch sorry for not adding that in yes twitch steaming games on twitch

[Dargenfire]

Judging by the mid-range specs you already have in your signature, I'd say go for a GTX 1070 and that should handle any game at 1080p + streaming to Twitch (since I wouldn't try to go above 1080p streaming for Twitch anyway)

[ismma99]

5 minutes ago, Dargenfire said:

Judging by the mid-range specs you already have in your signature, I'd say go for a GTX 1070 and that should handle any game at 1080p + streaming to Twitch (since I wouldn't try to go above 1080p streaming for Twitch anyway)

idk i was impresse the fact that i could stream with an skylake apu with good quiality or decent should i say and barely anny lag

[TheRandomness]

37 minutes ago, ismma99 said:

idk i was impresse the fact that i could stream with an skylake apu with good quiality or decent should i say and barely anny lag

APUs are pretty much only used for AMD's A4/6/8/10 series CPUs. Also, a 370 would be pretty bad if you wanted to stream good games with good framerates, an RX 470 or 480 would be good on a budget. 

[Guest]

rx 480 if u don't wanna spend too much money.

 

if you want brand new but a bit expensive go for a 1070

 

or you could pickup an used 900 series card on ebay or something like that for cheaper

[DXMember]

When streaming to like twich you can use OBS which supports following encoding:

• x264 - Pure CPU encoding, need at least i5 for proper performance and quality
• Quick Sync - CPU encoding with Intel iGPU acceleration - preferred way if you have Intel iGPU
• Nvidia NVENC - CPU encoding with nVidia GPU acceleration - some say the output quality is very poor