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OBS Studio 23 Delivers Smoother Streams with Nvidia Turing Graphics Cards

The free streaming software OBS Studio with its latest update to version 23 provides smoother streams, even with standard hardware and without a second streaming system.

Owners of Nvidia graphics cards with Turing architecture benefit from a new dedicated video encoder that shifts the bulk of the calculation from the processor to the graphics card. This ensures that more resources are available for the game and that the stream can be encoded live parallel to the game, without any major FPS losses. According to OBS, the quality of the encoder used should be at the level of the reference implementation over the processor. For Nvidia graphics cards with Pascal architecture, streams encoded via the graphics card were still well below the level of streams encoded via the processor.

The high-end systems previously required, which required at least a current processor with eight cores for CPU encoding or a second system used by professional streamers, are now a thing of the past. Also the integration of further image sources like the commonly used webcam is now possible via GPU encoding.

Like heise.de with a Intel Core i7-8700K and a Asus ROG Strix OC GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, the average FPS for the Shadow of the Tomb Raider game drops by 9 percent for CPU encoding, and by 11 percent for GPU encoding with the new Nvidia profile. So the CPU encoding is still more powerful, but the stream was much more fluid during GPU encoding.

Simon Lüthje

I am co-founder of this blog and am very interested in everything that has to do with technology, but I also like to play games. I was born in Hamburg, but now I live in Bad Segeberg.

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