NVIDIA partners with OBS to up quality, performance for game streamers

Streamers who use Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) can accept advantage of a pretty large boost to both framerate and stream quality with the software'due south latest update. Teaming upward with NVIDIA, OBS version 23.0 includes optimizations for NVIDIA graphics cards that can offload some of the encoding work washed by your CPU, helping to better overall functioning without investing in a defended encoding rig.

Specifically, OBS version 23.0 takes reward of the dedicated NVIDIA Encoder (NVENC) on GeForce graphics cards for the heavy lifting. According to NVIDIA, this improves streaming in two major means:

Visual quality of stream: encoding that typically requires heavy-lifting from the CPU, and causes a trade-off betwixt local framerates and streaming quality, is almost completely off-loaded, freeing the CPU up to handle other tasks.

Improved framerates and game performance: the balance of the GPU is free to exercise what'southward most of import, play your favorite games at the highest framerates possible.

NVIDIA's latest RTX 20-series GPUs feature the dedicated NVENC hardware encoder, so y'all'll get the best blindside for your buck if you've already outfitted your streaming rig with one. Withal, NVIDIA says that "current GeForce GTX GPUs, 600-series and newer with NVENC, will also meet speedups with these optimizations" besides. Accept a glance at our list of the best graphics cards if yous're looking to upgrade.

You can download OBS version 23.0 at present for free.

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