OBS streaming computer

[jaredhhhh]

I have been making updates to my church's live streaming systems, including on the computer side. For one I've been using a MacBook pro add a temporary solution while I was figuring out what computer to use permanently. I got a really good deal on a 12core Mac pro for my other rig and was surprised that I had extremely poor FPS. It was my impression that encoding was the job of the CPU and I have plenty of CPU power. OBS even showed I was using 10% or less of the CPU. It dawned on me that the MP had dedicated graphics where my MBP had shared and this might be the difference. I put in beefier GPU and viola better FPS. I'm still struggling to maintain more than about 25fps though and this is has me stumped for putting together a rig to take the place of my MBP. I was thinking PC to save some $. What am I missing? I've got plenty of download and uploaded speed.

 

[popatim]

MBP may have intel quicksync which many encoders can take advantage of. The 12 core likely wouldn't have intergated GPU on the CPU so would not get quicksync either.