Comparing Intel & Nvidia encoders for OBS Streaming
41I did some encoder deep diving for my stream setup and tested the Intel Arc a770, RTX 3050, RTX 4060, and finally the Arc a310. This was purely for OBS encoding! Not Plex servers. OBS encoding is more demanding because it needs to be relatively real-time to process all the data in a small window before it moves on to each frame.
My streaming computer is an AMD 3900x with 32gig RAM I built about 5 years ago.
Affiliate links:
Intel Arc a770 https://amzn.to/3E7dHdF
Intel Arc a310 https://amzn.to/4i2AqFN
Nvidia RTX 3050 https://amzn.to/4iRXOXw
Nvidia RTX 4060 https://amzn.to/4jlfRp7
Chapters:
00:00 My encoder journey so far
02:59 The testing environment with A770
03:40 A770 unusual canvas size test
06:50 A770 4k canvas discussion
09:04 A770 4k test
10:49 A770 4k test best quality
12:29 A770 1440p test
14:38 RTX4060 discussion & odd canvas size
18:20 A310 with odd canvas size
21:19 RTX4060 4k canvas
23:53 RTX4060 multi stream test
26:25 Final Thoughts
#OBS #streaming #gpu