BEST OBS NVENC Settings & Presets Comparison

A comparison of the NVENC presets available for use in OBS

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[Metldragon]

Helped A ton, man! Really appreciate you taking time to show the quality differences, also!

[jeremymartin]

Good video. Short and to the point. Clear and concise. Very helpful. Thank you.

[PTsandroGaming]

Finally i found one of the BEST OBS config to record The Best Quality Videos without breaks and with suberb quality!!
Thanks so Much!! +1

[BulletFever]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! OBS looked like 144p youtube videos. Now it looks as good as shadowplay, super helpful. Thank you!

[TheJontekarlsson]

works great. thank you it solved my performence issue. now its like yours with perfect performence.

[HammerKick]

Had pixelated recordings, your guide helped me, thanks!

[KurzipLP]

OMG Thanks so much! I always had problems with Nvenc, but these settings a phenomenal.

[AlleGamingTV]

yeah bro, thank you very much... since a few days i had a problem with my videos, i cant view them in premiere pro, but with your video it works ^^ THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! And sorry for my bad english, im a german boy and only have english in the school. If i have big mistakes in my language please write it to me. Thank you :DDDD

[valentinrafael]

What about the new NVEnc options? Streaming/Streaming 2 pass

[WeMakePies]

What is the Song that starts at 6:03? 

[MysticNessly]

If you're doing local recording, I would strongly advise AGAINST using OBS if you're going to use NVENC. On my system, I saw a 16% reduction in FPS when recording using NVENC compared to using just shadowplay which resulted in only a 7% reduction in FPS. My benchmark notes are below. NVENC is still excellent for streaming or capturing from external sources, but for local recording, you will see less performance compared to if you were just using shadowplay. At least this was the case for my computer.

I ran my tests using Resident Evil 6 benchmark which gives an FPS score. 
System Specs: i5-2500k (3.3ghz quad) Overclocked to 4.4ghz, GTX 960
no recording: 11863pts
shadowplay recording 1920x1080: 11072pts (7% loss of performance)
obs recoding (NVENC) 1920x1080: 9934pts  (16% loss of performance)

[vask]

bluray seems like the best quality. i will try it for streaming

[mostafamarwanmostafa]

i got nvidia GT640 version 368.81 and whenever i try to use nvidia nvenc in the OBS he pops up saying u need at least nvidia driver version 344 ... please what can i do my driver are always up to date and i reinstalled obs 2 times and still have the problem

[Schmidteren]

I cant find the option. My options looks completely different. :)

[Alberkin]

what is the best preset? I have GTX 760 and I need frame smoothness

[darodism]

so in conclusion the bluray is the best? im using high quality and it becomes blured quite often. im testing right now too btw

[Minisb]

"bluray disc" option seems to be the best quality to me, isn't it ?

i7 4790k-gtx 1080-16GRAM i have 50fps and drops ingame (Battlefield 1) with x264 - cpu=veryfast/normal 3000 kbps 720p/60fps on obs, the cpu usage goes to 97-100%... I'm gonna try Nvenc encoding to stream on twitch with your settings.

[Xyxphz]

Do you have a Windows 8 theme? If so, what is it called?

[Elkethuss]

a big thanks but i have question when you stream wha bitrate you using for your gpu? and can it be dangerous your gpu to be used like this?

[MarkAntony_]

Help me pls i cant put the Videos into Camtasia Studio 8 pls help me