Nvidia Share/Shadowplay Recording Benchmarks - How Much Performance or FPS Do You Lose With NVENC?

In this video we investigate the performance impacts one can experience when using Nvidia’s Shadowplay/share recording software. As with any sort of recording method you’re going to have to endure a performance hit to your fps as its more resource heavy on your gaming pc. However Nvidia claims that with share and their hardware built-in NVENC encoder that the performance hit is very small. So we put that to the test and see how much performance do you really lose.

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PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2 80 plus GOLD Power Supply
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Monitor: BenQ XL2730Z 144Hz 1440P
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

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[sly]

How does this have 300 views? this is literally such a high quality video

[GiddyGoat]

This video deserves at least 10k views or likes.

[boeman]

Just the video I was looking for. I play BF2042 and with shadow play on I lose around 10 fps. With OBS NDI I lose around 20fps. I'm looking at getting a capture card (dual PC setup)and I am hoping there will be no frames lost. Great video!

[STORMIEDBD]

Great video! Another interesting point would be to compare the input lag between the different options, cheers !

[VivaLaRazsa]

pretty useful video. As I expected shadowplay is the best option unless you can afford a super high end dual PC setup.

[vladislavkaras]

Great information, thank you!
Instant replay is pretty neat feature, thankfully it does not hurt fps!

[grigorkromka]

bro i just watched entire video and then checked it got only 10k views... like wtf its straight to the point, sound quality is awasome, overall quality is at very high level

[-Rizecek-]

I today test doom eternal.
With shadowplay 390fps.
Without 440..
Rainbow six extraction.
With 260fps
Without 290

[davidlee]

Of corset with a 3090 there's little performance lost try with 2060 super it's bad

[houdloukaoe]

Nice video so hopeful i searched for this so long thanks man :)

[Beefy-Tech]

I am heavily interested in how much input lag there is with instant replay? anybody know any sources that have spoken of this?

[patb]

Nice, so basically no difference and can capture amazing moments

[Pryslak]

The thing that bothers me so much is the bug that has instant replay record your other monitor. It pisses me off

[Danmandingo]

Ahhhh the age old Battle...

Do people prefer Nvenc or X264. And at what bitrate, does the user prefer.

[MissMan]

so annoying tha intant replay records at whatever the system volume is set at, it casues different volume levels on all my recording as i dont have the same system volume set all the time...

[kingeling]

I’m sure benchmarking with a cpu that has a lower core count would show bigger differences

[VoreQ]

this is odd, i was just checking task manager and noticed with no games running my GPU was idling at 40% useage,
and it turns out shadowplay was the culprit, so to see such a minor performance impact is interesting
when its hogging 40% of the GPU even while my PC is idling.

[stealthhunter]

When the desktop recording is enabled it spikes to 14.5% GPU usage on my 3080. Is that normal?

[NickleNinja]

if you were to record in 1440 and play in 1440 wouldnt you get better Frames since your encoder doesnt have to upscale ?

[xxLegendaryVikingxx]

My specs are
-AMD Ryzen 7 5700
-16 gb memory
-NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 will it be good enough to use to record every gameplay even warzone?