[SOLVED] 1660 good enough for streaming/recording NVENC Encoder if dedicated?

[PcGamingRig]

Is the 1660 good enough for 1080p recording/streaming with the NVENC encoder if it's in a dedicated streaming PC?

 

[Lutfij]

If it's for streaming duties alone, you should be able to keep your head above the waterline but if it's going to pull double duties, then no, you can't game and stream off the system with that GPU. Also, what CPU is going into your streaming machine?

 

[InvalidError]

NVEnc is dedicated hardware, it has little to no impact on the GPU's 3D performance so there is little to no reason to use separate GPUs for gaming and streaming. Using a dedicated PC for streaming means your main GPU has to output something your capture card can handle, which in turn means you need to cap your FPS no higher than that. You don't have this limitation when streaming from the same PC you are playing from.

If your gaming rig has enough spare performance to handle streaming, you would likely get better overall game and stream performance doing everything on a single system.

 

[logainofhades]

Is the 1660 good enough for 1080p recording/streaming with the NVENC encoder if it's in a dedicated streaming PC?

If you current system, is the same as what is in your sig, you should be fine, as is for streaming, without the need for another system. I'd upgrade to a 5900x, before I bothered with building a separate streaming rig.