
still OBS is in memory even after application closed. But if you design a new PC, you are able to invest in hardware with a better encoder.Īll true. I see the AMD encoder only as fallback if no other encoder is available on a given machine. The mainboard must support it and you need to enable it in BIOS. The Intel CPUs with an F as suffix don't have an iGPU, the others should have one. Quicksync in ICQ mode, suitable only for recording, is able to achieve as good quality as Nvenc. If you intend to record only, you can choose Quicksync as encoder alternative, if you have a Intel CPU that comes with an iGPU. If you intend to stream, getting a Nvidia GPU for Nvenc is a good investment. Its nvenc encoder is really good and the best among the 3 supported encoders. If you intend to use OBS and intend to use a hardware encoder to relieve the CPU from encoding, I recommend choosing a Nvidia GPU. Nvenc is a dedicated circuit, so it doesn't suffer the same. It also suffers severely (lags, choppy video) if the GPU is near maximum use by a game, since it seems to use some of the GPU resources itself. However, from the 3 supported hardware encoders (Nvenc on Nvidia GPUs, Quicksync on Intel iGPU, AMD), AMD is the one with the lowest encoding quality. There is a hardware encoder on AMD GPUs, and OBS supports it.
