Ryzen CPU Question

[diamondandy]

I've read a few articles about the Ryzen in regards to benchmarking and seen a LTT video which had the Ryzen streaming LoL, but the information I wanted to know hasn't been posted (That I've seen).

So I want to make a dedicated PC with a Ryzen CPU driving it. I'll have an Elgato HD60 Pro (Internal card) for capturing the gameplay from my other PC so I don't need to worry about using the Ryzen for anything except encoding the stream.

I was wondering if the 1700 would be enough to encode at Medium preset in OBS at 1080p @60fps.

If not, could someone please point me in the right direction in regards to CPU.

Thanks in advance.

Andy

 

[AllBodies]

How many Ryzen cores are you looking at?

If it's any of the 8 core ones, you'd be able to run high presets on the same PC as gaming, without a capture card and second PC.

If the PC is only doing the stream encoding, even an i5 is fine.

So if you want to go down this route, I'd just wait for the 6 core models, and buy the cheapest one with a cheapo mobo.

 

[Jumper118]

Yes if you are gaming and streaming on same. Machine 1700 is the way to go but if it's only streaming then an r5 1400 will be fine.

 

[original.wood]

if you already have a competent PC that you plan on using for Gaming, and want/need another PC to handle the streaming, I would definitely be holding out for the Ryzen R5's to drop next week. most likely the 1600, as it could possibly be overclocked to match the 1600X CPU. I reckon even the 1600/1600X could encode at high presets due to the multiple cores available.

 

[Safetytrousers]

A Haswell i3 is plenty for a 2nd PC with an Elgato HD60 Pro. The Elgato does the encoding, not your CPU. I have such a PC and it worked beautifully (before Windows nerfed 1440 with 1080 cloning). The Elgato plus its software produced the best quality streams, easily better than OBS or Xsplit or anything such. The Elgato software does everything you would want including overlays.
The PC I put together was about £250 in total new and ran silently with a £30 cooler.

 

[ben90]

I'm hoping the 1600 will be able to handle gaming and streaming on its own. Seems the money I will save on the 6 cores will be used towards higher speed RAM

 

[Safetytrousers]

I'm hoping the 1600 will be able to handle gaming and streaming on its own. Seems the money I will save on the 6 cores will be used towards higher speed RAM

I think so. Gaming + streaming my 1700 is at about 33% overall use. Streaming with OBS does have a hit on fps but it is only a small hit.

 

[MDPlatts]

...I would definitely be holding out for the Ryzen R5's to drop next week....

Its 3 weeks and 1 day last time I looked - 11th April

 

[diamondandy]

It's a separate PC, I am currently using an old AMD which struggles at times (6 core, 1090T I believe it is). Won't stream at 1080p @ 60fps, which is what I'm aiming for eventually.

Thanks for the replies, looks like I'll be waiting around for the R5's then.