Nvidia Share/Shadowplay Recording Benchmarks - How Much Performance or FPS Do You Lose With NVENC?

so annoying tha intant replay records at whatever the system volume is set at, it casues different volume levels on all my recording as i dont have the same system volume set all the time...

Bruh... What?? Barely lose performance? Whatcha mean?
20-30 fps lost isn't "barely" it's a lot.
If you have the latest card and are playing 480p, yeah, sure, -20 frames from 500 isn't much, but -20 frames from 60 is a lot.

if you were to record in 1440 and play in 1440 wouldnt you get better Frames since your encoder doesnt have to upscale ?

Awesome video, thank you.

very helpful
thanks

My 2 cents: on a 9700K, 32 Gb of RAM and a 3070; recording with bandicam using intel quick sync h264 60fps 80 quality
I get slightly worst results (around 2%) using NVENC h264 at the same settings although the files are a bit smaller too. I'm not sure why there is not a significant difference between recording with intel's quick sync and nvidia nvenc; theoretically it should be better as I'm recording with the CPU's GPU and that should leave the dedicated graphics card (3070) work on the game only.
Game FPS FPS (Recording) Performance lost % Graphics Settings
Shadow of the Tomb R 98 88 10.20% 3440x1440, highest
Cyberpunk 52.9 49.3 6.81% 3440x1440, ultra
Cyberpunk 86.56 77.87 10.04% 3440x1440, high, DLSS quality
Far Cry 6 89 77 13.48% 3440x1440, ultra
Horizon Zero Dawn 91 76 16.48% 3440x1440, ultimate
Assassins Creed Odys 71 65 8.45% 3440x1440, ultra

this is odd, i was just checking task manager and noticed with no games running my GPU was idling at 40% useage,
and it turns out shadowplay was the culprit, so to see such a minor performance impact is interesting
when its hogging 40% of the GPU even while my PC is idling.

i dont lose fps i get drop fps i really want to fix this issue but i cant
my gpu is 2060 and the game is league of legends, its not just league its most of the games if anyone has a solution pls help

What is the software used that shows the benchmark data

bro i just watched entire video and then checked it got only 10k views... like wtf its straight to the point, sound quality is awasome, overall quality is at very high level

My specs are
-AMD Ryzen 7 5700
-16 gb memory
-NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 will it be good enough to use to record every gameplay even warzone?

Maybe this test should have been done with more reasonable specs, with a high end system like this of course you wont notice anything

Thanks

I’m sure benchmarking with a cpu that has a lower core count would show bigger differences

Just the video I was looking for. I play BF2042 and with shadow play on I lose around 10 fps. With OBS NDI I lose around 20fps. I'm looking at getting a capture card (dual PC setup)and I am hoping there will be no frames lost. Great video!

I today test doom eternal.
With shadowplay 390fps.
Without 440..
Rainbow six extraction.
With 260fps
Without 290

Of corset with a 3090 there's little performance lost try with 2060 super it's bad

Can u do a test of fps loss if any like if we use the integrated GPU hardware encoder quick sync for Intel & VCE for AMD for recording while using the AMD/Nvidia GPU just for gaming. CPU will get hotter looks like it😂 pls do it I'm eagerly waiting for the results thanks

Nice video so hopeful i searched for this so long thanks man :)

When the desktop recording is enabled it spikes to 14.5% GPU usage on my 3080. Is that normal?

Awesome video! Earned a sub for sure.

The thing that bothers me so much is the bug that has instant replay record your other monitor. It pisses me off

Nice, so basically no difference and can capture amazing moments

Its just 3 or 4 fps loss

I am heavily interested in how much input lag there is with instant replay? anybody know any sources that have spoken of this?

bro can u give me a free graphics card i legit can’t afford any card coz all these miners are just using all them up

Thanks, excellent short video

This video deserves at least 10k views or likes.

Thank you!!!!!!

How does this have 300 views? this is literally such a high quality video

pretty useful video. As I expected shadowplay is the best option unless you can afford a super high end dual PC setup.

what if i use instant replay on 30mbs 1080p do you think it will change much?

what bitrate do you use when recoridng?

Ahhhh the age old Battle...

Do people prefer Nvenc or X264. And at what bitrate, does the user prefer.