Best TWITCH Stream Settings for Nvidia users! OBS 28.1 BETA PRESETS

The new OBS 28.1 beta is weird... it adds some new NVENC presets, but are they as magical as it seems?! In this video, I test P1 through P7 of the new NVENC H.264 encoder and test it across Lovelace, Ampere, Turing, Pascal, and Maxwell generations to see what the best settings for you would be.

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[chillroze]

Love the amount of effort you put in your work Addie!

Also as someone who just went from a GTX 1070 to a RX 5700 it kinda stings seeing all the NVENC support.

[givemethesantahatfoo]

Just came back to say, these settings have bumped my quality up by a hugeeee margin! I went from a blocky mess in overwatch team fights, to damn near clear as day! For anyone else, I used: 1792x1008 scaled output, 7k bitrate, P6 slower (rtx3080), tuning high quality, profile high, 2-pass quarter, max-b frames 2, key interval 2, Psycho on. Amazing find EposVox, thank you once again!

[SevendashGaming]

I am very excited for the Nvidia users. As an AMD user mainly, I'm glad we got improvements recently as well. I'm still sticking to HEVC HDR streaming on YouTube but I've definitely shared this with my Twitch Nvidia users!

[m.chimiste]

This was super helpful. I recently updated to the official 28.1 version and all of a sudden I had so many options I had not idea what I was looking at.

[Vitium]

I think that it would be interesting to also have a Nvidia encoder optimization guide as you did with AMD a while ago for people that doesn't care too much about streaming and more into recording content, but as always, great content Mr. Stream Professor!! Cheers form Spain!

[AVX]

Single most helpful OBS encoder-setup video

[SlightlyWilsonGaming]

Dont consider it a waste, I've been pulling my hair out with my new pc trying to figure out the diffrence. This has put me at ease

[Stodeh]

Ayy thanks for this vid, been waiting for this.

Is 936p P6 the meta? or should twitch streamers be gunning for 1080p now?

[LastofAvari]

Mic sound is a bit clicky like something shorts out or disconnects.

[givemethesantahatfoo]

Right as I was looking for some settings to fix the pixelation on my stream! Thanks EposVox!

[qrict]

Was waiting for this video.would love to see the comparison between hevc via hls VS h264 with this tuning.nice work btw.

[Movie_Games]

Is P6 QRS still the best if you have a dedicated streaming PC with a 3080? Plenty of headroom for P7 full res multipass.

[lucidx]

You are doing an incredible job. Thank you for all the testing

[AlyxSharkBite-]

Just a note about nvenc vs x264 ffmpeg has had the new nvidia encoder stuff for a while, and with these settings vmaf puts it above x264 very slow in the results.

-preset p7 -tune hq -profile:v main10 -tier high -level auto -temporal_aq 1 -nonref_p 1 -multipass fullres if i compare it to x264 very slow (2 pass) 10bit the nvenc usually scores 2-3% better results from vmaf given the same bit rate. Also I get about 130fps (3090 Ti) encodes on 1080p vs like 9fps on the x264

Their new encoder is really good. I am going to have to see how it does with the obs beta!

Thanks for the video really cool!

[toastbrot]

At 10:22 i still think that x264 medium looks better than your config, even if the video quality analysis tool begs to differ. Which is not to say that it's not worth it, any bit of visual improvements over default is always nice. But if this video shows me anything, it's that 6mbps simply isn't enough for a very clean 1080p60 and likely never will with h.264. I would bet that just stepping down to 900p would make a world of difference for image quality. I really can't wait for AV1 to take over and solve the quality problem once and for all!

[MrVaultBoy]

No matter what Netflix benchmarking tool says, it is day&night difference here and x264 wins... 09:55
Just pause the video whenever you want and see how bad p7 looks compared to x264.
Look for the background, grow foundation text and leaves of the tree.

[Kenjra]

This is exactly the type of video I love. These deep dives help me put to rest that nagging feeling that I've improperly set my OBS despite hours of tutorials and guides. For those of us streaming on YouTube with access to HEVC and fewer bitrate constraints, are these findings still largely applicable or should that platform be approached with a different mindset settings wise?

[UpgradeLemonade]

Can you do a full follow up on your recent Quick Sync findings??? Been playing with it, love to hear what you find across all their different bitrate control options for OBS. Great video here as always 🤘

[OfficialBlazy]

Imma try single pass on my RTX 3090 to see if it improves... Stream is blurry despite having outstanding internet connection... Ty for the video.

[NicDroid]

I just tested the 28.1 Beta after watching your video and I'm surprised how optimized was the NVENC over the years! I'm using a dual GPU Setup on my rig (Quadro K620 for Encoding, GTX 1060 6GB for Gaming) and tested out P6 and P7 on my Quadro and I'm happy to report that it and works just fine compared to the old presets and doesn't overload my secondary GPU anymore.

The upcoming update would be definitely helpful for my needs since I can't afford getting a new GPU for the meantime.