Question capture Card vs NVIDIA Shadow play

[flasher33]

I am doing a few benchmarks to my RTX4070Ti and capturing game play through NVIDIA shadow play software.
as I have a high end PC (12th gen i9 + 23GB DDR5)
my question is should I go with and external capture card to gain more FPS (see the max performance of the card) or is SP enough ?
i know there is a certain amount of FPS drop but I need a correct representation for my benchmark to post on my blog.
thanks in advance.

 

[TerryLaze]

my question is should I go with and external capture card to gain more FPS (see the max performance of the card) or is SP enough ?

Do you have different FPS when recording compared to not recording?!
That would be your answer.
Also if your i9 has an igpu you can use quicksync to do your recordings which has an even lower overhead than SP.

 

[LordVile]

Do the benchmarks without recording. Get the figures then get footage while not benchmarking. Make it clear that the footage isn’t benchmark footage due to losses caused by recording.

Also have you got 23GB of RAM?

 

[flasher33]

Do the benchmarks without recording. Get the figures then get footage while not benchmarking. Make it clear that the footage isn’t benchmark footage due to losses caused by recording.

Also have you got 23GB of RAM?

yes I do have 32Gb of DDR5. The idea is to save on time to show actual benchmark results as my viewers like this method better than charts.

 

[flasher33]

Do you have different FPS when recording compared to not recording?!
That would be your answer.
Also if your i9 has an igpu you can use quicksync to do your recordings which has an even lower overhead than SP.

not sure as I need to try it out since I need a separate PC to capture and compare.
for the iGPU will it automatically work or do i need to fiddle with something for it to work?

 

[TerryLaze]

not sure as I need to try it out since I need a separate PC to capture and compare.
for the iGPU will it automatically work or do i need to fiddle with something for it to work?

The iGPU has to be connected to a monitor, can even be the same monitor on a second input, on some mobos you have to go into bios and select the iGPU as the boot display for windows to recognize it and install drivers, after that you can switch that back to the GPU if you want.