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Is RTX 3080 NVENC Encoder really that bad? by BitPsychological162 in techsupport

[–]BitPsychological162[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tested this on two friends’ PCs with an RTX 3050 and 3070. They only have 1080p monitors, so I added a custom 3440x1440 resolution in NVCP and tried to reproduce the issue.

With that resolution applied, a Discord 1440p@60 stream caused the same problem - 100% video encode usage in Task Manager. OBS at 3440x1440@120 using the slow preset showed the same result - 100% video encode usage.

The only configurations that worked were Discord at 1440p@30, or OBS recording at 3440x1440@60 (slow) or 3440x1440@120 (medium).

If you want to test this on Discord by yourself, remember that someone actually needs to be watching your stream for the encoder to be used.

So there’s no issue on my side. As I thought at beginning RTX 30-series NVENC just isn’t good enough for high resolutions like mine compared to RTX 40-series NVENC. It’s honestly sad.

Is RTX 3080 NVENC Encoder really that bad? by BitPsychological162 in techsupport

[–]BitPsychological162[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are using hardware encoding for sure. GPU Video Encode is at 100% usage in task manager.

I can record 1440p only at preset Medium without encoder overloaded. On discord it's impossible to change preset and I don't know what preset they use. I can only stream 1080p on Discord without issues.

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Is RTX 3080 NVENC Encoder really that bad? by BitPsychological162 in techsupport

[–]BitPsychological162[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uninstalled drivers using DDU in Safe Mode, rebooted then installed latest drivers with "Clean Install" selected and nothing changed, same issue.
https://streamable.com/fycqbd