As we have quite a bit of recording software available to us, I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread for people to post their findings. I am a big fan of ShadowPlay and the early versions were quite big on performance hits but seems the latest version is much better. I did some testing using the in-game bench, so as not to skew any of the results and I set the same settings for both ShadowPlay and non ShadowPlay. I ran my CPU @ 4.7Ghz and my GPU at 1241/3758Mhz and used the highest settings in game.
As you can see, the performance hit is very negligible and you wouldn't even know it was recording. I remember using FRAPS many moons ago and that was a massive performance hit but times have changed and with ShadowPlay and Raptr's GVR, things have improved tremendously.
Anyway, here is my findings:
As you can see, Sleeping Dogs gives a performance hit of ~ 2.7%
Sniper Elite V2 gave a performance hit of ~ 4.5%
Tomb Raider gave a performance hit of ~ 2%
Thief gave a performance hit of ~ 3.5%
Batman Arkham Origins gave a performance hit of ~ 4%
Hitman Absolution gave a performance hit of ~ 1%
And there you have it. Very impressive in my opinion and a year or so ago, I never imagined recording gameplay to be so easy and to have such little requirements on performance. The highest performance hit was with Sniper Elite V2 and that was 4.5% and the lowest was Hitman Absolution and that was 1%.
Please feel free to add your own findings to this (good or bad) but there was a lot of work gone into this, so I would appreciate any narky digs/comments to be left out and regardless of what is what, this is to discuss what performance hit people are getting and to maybe give some tips.
For me, I found the best settings were to have a higher CPU clock and to record directly to my SSD. Not sure if recording to a mech drive makes things worse but an SSD is ideal for sure.
As you can see, the performance hit is very negligible and you wouldn't even know it was recording. I remember using FRAPS many moons ago and that was a massive performance hit but times have changed and with ShadowPlay and Raptr's GVR, things have improved tremendously.
Anyway, here is my findings:
As you can see, Sleeping Dogs gives a performance hit of ~ 2.7%
Sniper Elite V2 gave a performance hit of ~ 4.5%
Tomb Raider gave a performance hit of ~ 2%
Thief gave a performance hit of ~ 3.5%
Batman Arkham Origins gave a performance hit of ~ 4%
Hitman Absolution gave a performance hit of ~ 1%
And there you have it. Very impressive in my opinion and a year or so ago, I never imagined recording gameplay to be so easy and to have such little requirements on performance. The highest performance hit was with Sniper Elite V2 and that was 4.5% and the lowest was Hitman Absolution and that was 1%.
Please feel free to add your own findings to this (good or bad) but there was a lot of work gone into this, so I would appreciate any narky digs/comments to be left out and regardless of what is what, this is to discuss what performance hit people are getting and to maybe give some tips.
For me, I found the best settings were to have a higher CPU clock and to record directly to my SSD. Not sure if recording to a mech drive makes things worse but an SSD is ideal for sure.
