[SOLVED] Streaming with AMD GPU?!

[jawa]

hello,
i have a AMD Radeon RX 590 GPU and a Ryzen 7 2700X CPU.
I want to stream to Twitch using OBS. usually i stream using the "x264" encoder but i realized that AMD has its own encoder ("H264/AVC Encoder AMD Advanced Media Framework"). I know NVIDIA GPUs have "NVENC" as their encoder which is better than x264, so i am wondering if the AMD encoder is also better?
which encoder should i use for the best possible streaming quality? Thank you

 

[TerryLaze]

Hey why don't you try and tell us?!
The word on the internet is that AMD live! has driver issues and that's why people don't prefer it but it might run well enough for you,just try it out,I mean what do you have to lose?

 

[mitch074]

hello,
i have a AMD Radeon RX 590 GPU and a Ryzen 7 2700X CPU.
I want to stream to Twitch using OBS. usually i stream using the "x264" encoder but i realized that AMD has its own encoder ("H264/AVC Encoder AMD Advanced Media Framework"). I know NVIDIA GPUs have "NVENC" as their encoder which is better than x264, so i am wondering if the AMD encoder is also better?
which encoder should i use for the best possible streaming quality? Thank you

x264 is CPU based while both nvenc and AMF use hardware on the GPU. But, after some tests, I can tell you this: x264 compresses much better than both. Depending on what is most important to you (encoding smoothness or smallest throughput), then you should use one or the other.

 

[jawa]

x264 is CPU based while both nvenc and AMF use hardware on the GPU. But, after some tests, I can tell you this: x264 compresses much better than both. Depending on what is most important to you (encoding smoothness or smallest throughput), then you should use one or the other.

Thank you for your explanation!

 

[mitch074]

Thank you for your explanation!

you're welcome. Just to be clear, there is certainly a use case for hardware-accelerated encoding (live streaming is one if you're short on CPU power) but for a given codec a CPU encoder will almost always produce better results (as in compression to quality ratio) due to all the hand tuning done on these.