Hi everyone,
I am considering switching from an NVIDIA GPU to an AMD card, and I wanted to ask about the real-world impact on recording quality.
Is there a clearly visible difference between AMD’s hardware encoder and NVIDIA NVENC when recording in HEVC at higher bitrates, around 50–70 Mbps?
I already know that NVENC generally performs much better at low bitrates, especially for streaming. However, my use case is not bitrate-limited streaming. I mainly record locally and usually use 55 Mbps or higher, so I am more interested in high-bitrate recording performance rather than low-bitrate compression efficiency.
The main reason I am looking at AMD is pricing. In my country, NVIDIA cards are extremely overpriced. For example, an RTX 4080 Super costs roughly twice as much as an RX 7900 XTX, which makes the AMD option much more attractive.
My current system is:
B450 Gaming X motherboard
Ryzen 5 3600X
NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti
16GB DDR4 RAM
Recording to SSD
Windows 10 19045
For users who have recorded gameplay or desktop footage with both AMD and NVIDIA at similar HEVC bitrates, how noticeable is the quality difference? Would switching to team Red be a serious downgrade for local recording, or is the gap much smaller once the bitrate is high enough?