

Still, the decision is not all that simple. If you can stream games using both CPU and GPU-based methods, which method yields the best results? As it turns out, whether you encode via CPU or GPU heavily affects the speed, detail, and performance of your stream. Read on to learn how CPU and GPU contribute to streaming and how each effect your streams. Both streaming options offer benefits and drawbacks depending on the games you plan to stream as well as your computer budget. Streaming through software encoding is CPU intensive, where streaming through hardware encoding is more GPU intensive. So, when upgrading your hardware, is CPU or GPU more critical for streaming? Is Streaming CPU or GPU Intensive? This setting will give you the best result and you can check between both which one is better.Have you ever started a stream only to discover your stream skipping or crashing while you stream? It could be your internet, but it could be your hardware as well. It doesn’t impact performance and gives access to a set of features that are key to streaming, so this should always be set to High. The profile determines a group of settings in the H.264 Codec.

speed).īitrate is heavily influenced by your internet connection speed and the ability of your streaming computer to encode video.īitrate: 2500-3500 NVIDIA (NVENC H.264 Only) Profile Bitrate is calculated in kilobits per second (kbps), which indicates how many ‘bits’ of data you are sending and at what ‘rate’ (i.e. Preset: Performance or Max Performance ( NVENC H.264 Only)īitrate refers to the quality of the video or audio that is being uploaded to your preferred site.CPU Usage Preset: superfast ( x264 Only).By default, this is set to “Very Fast”, which provides the best balance between performance and quality but for low-end pc, it’s better to set it to superfast. The faster it encodes, the less CPU it uses. The usage preset refers to how fast the CPU encodes video. If you are using the default encoder then understand that Some people might experience high CPU utilization, and other programs running on your computer might experience degraded performance while OBS is active if your settings are too high for your computer’s hardware.Įncoder: GPU Encoder (NVIDIA NVENC H.264, AMD) CPU Usage Preset If you have an NVIDIA or AMD GPU then you can use it there encoders, but if you don’t have GPU then you can use the default Software Based Encoder. Copy the stream key and paste it to the stream key section in OBS. Click Use stream Key and your browser will open with stream key in it.ĥ.
