GPU Question

[Xoriam]

NVENC on GTX900 series are not low quality, my TITAN has an older NVENC chip, the quality at 50Mbps is decent. It doesn't have much performance impact because it fetch the information from the buffer on a separated encoding chip. This is why the GTX700 series can only max at 1440p at 30FPS while the GTX900 has a newer encoding chip enable to record at 4k @ 60FPS and 1440p @ 60FPS.

I have OBS, FRAPS, Bandicam, Shadowplay, DXTory all purchased or owned. including Miriilis Action!. I've done hours of countless recording between all those softwares.

On maxwell (9xx) if you select 4k resolution for recording in shadowplay you can actually record at 130mbps now.

[MiniTofu]

On maxwell (9xx) if you select 4k resolution for recording in shadowplay you can actually record at 130mbps now.

Good to know. Shadowplay on GTX7xx can only record at 50Mbps. The only way for me to push it higher is to use OBS with NVENC at 100Mbps+

[Kewitt]

If you can wait till 3.0 comes out. DX11 will change a lot of these numbers.
Also other Cards will likely be released along with newer drivers.

[SweDDishB]

Is there a time frame on when the DX11 update will be released? Will it be at the same time as the expansion?

[raelgun]

NVENC on GTX900 series are not low quality, my TITAN has an older NVENC chip, the quality at 50Mbps is decent. It doesn't have much performance impact because it fetch the information from the buffer on a separated encoding chip. This is why the GTX700 series can only max at 1440p at 30FPS while the GTX900 has a newer encoding chip enable to record at 4k @ 60FPS and 1440p @ 60FPS.

I have OBS, FRAPS, Bandicam, Shadowplay, DXTory all purchased or owned. including Miriilis Action!. I've done hours of countless recording between all those softwares.

Running on 3930k, testing X264 is not a problem at all.

50 Mbps at 60 FPS isnt very good, thats the equivalent to 25Mbps at 30 FPS in terms of quality.

100Mbps 60 FPS is equivalent to 30 FPS at 50 Mbps, DXtory at 30 FPS is 100 Mbps, lagirith is 200 Mbps at 30 FPS.

Granted DXtory is pretty hard to record at 60 FPS with those bitrates, but the quality is pretty high and its CBR.

Sorry but the math says otherwise, nice to know Nvidia are improving the chip though was wondering if they would do that or not.

I will give that shadowplay lets me play the games at 60 FPS at 50 Mbps while recording 60 FPS, but the quality is worlds apart to the 100 Mbps DXtory at 30 FPS, also youtube... you have to pick one over the other sadly.

I should add, DXtory lets you record at 30 FPS while gaming at 60 FPS so theres no fixed locking unless you want to.

[Turin]

Ty for the responses, I appreciate the feedback. Is anyone maxing the game right now on a single card in 1440p? Would a 970 max the current settings in 1440p? I currently have a Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 960 @3.20 GHz and installed memory (RAM) 12.0 GB. Looking to hopefully purchase a single card but nothing insane like a GTX Titan or anything in that realm.

I have a 1080p monitor with the GTX 460 and can play on maximum settings. I have the i5 3570k processor. I've been looking at the GTX 970 G1 Gaming card lately, but not sure if I want to get it now or wait since I can already play the game at max settings. If you can't play at max, I'd say go for it since the GTX 970 is a great deal.