How much does streaming affect FPS?

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I want to start streaming on Twitch however, I want to make sure I’m still getting 144 fps. I currently play on Ultra with a few setting on low/high. I’m willing to lower picture quality to maintain frames.

PC Specs:

  • RTX 2070 (Overclocked: not sure what speed though/too lazy to check rn)

  • Ryzen 5 2600 (Overclocked to 4.150 GHz peak speed)

  • 3000 Mhz Ram

Will I be able to maintain my frames with these specs? I also have decent internet w/ about 80 mbps. Any other advice on how to adjust settings on OBS/OW to maintain frames would be helpful also!

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The GPU takes on the vast majority of the workload for streaming, and it looks like yours is more than sufficient for that.

I don’t lose much from streaming/recording with a GTX 1070: 1440p resolution downscaled to 1080p for the stream, mostly max video settings, and I stay above 100 FPS. (Edit: Worth noting that I only record at 30 FPS)

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TEST IT! not rocket science…
make sure your gpu is doing the job not cpu, nvidia integrated it inside, shoudnt be a problem
whats your upload speed?
if you dont know how to make your GPU do the encoding, just look for nvidia nvenc h.264 setting, in encoding part of the streaming software

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I know it’s not hard however, it’s time consuming. I was just looking for advice to know if it’d be worth my time to even try it if it affects my frames drastically. My upload speed is very fast (about 90 mbps i think).

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Use nvenc if you have to.

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What does nvenc do/what is it? I understand it’s some kinda of setting but I’m not sure what it does. It’s probs good advice but I’m curious.

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Uses the gpu to encode instead so the cpu isn’t doing that part of the work, letting you maintain closer to non-streaming fps.

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