Explaining AMD's Misleading Marketing: X264 Stream Quality & Benchmarks
5,131AMD had some misleading marketing in its streaming part of the recent E3 event for Ryzen 3000. We think AMD could have done this in a better way that still looked good for them.
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The recent AMD E3 presentation had some marketing that concerned us, especially considering the Ryzen 3000 series processors are fully capable of performing well in fair conditions. Running X264 slow settings is similar to running tessellation under the map -- it'll show one processor as unrealistically superior (60FPS vs. 1FPS), but provide no actual tangible benefit to the end user. There are better ways to represent the AMD CPU in a good light, like simultaneous local recording and streaming at more reasonable settings.
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This testing looks at X264 (H264) encoding quality settings in OBS, like Slow, Medium, Fast, Faster, and Veryfast. We also talk about the differences in those X264 CPU encoding settings.
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Editorial, Testing: Steve Burke
Video: Andrew Coleman
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