NVIDIA has two big livestreaming upgrades in store with RTX and AI

Livestreaming takes a lot. In addition to the skill you need to have and an on-screen personality that attracts and entertains audiences, you need a setup that’s ready to run your games, capture all the footage, and deliver that all on a streaming platform like Twitch. With all that, you can face some challenges with stream quality that could make even the best stream hard to fully enjoy for your audiences. 

Both your upstream bandwidth and the downstream bandwidth of your viewers can impact the quality of your streams. Fortunately, NVIDIA and Twitch collaborated to develop Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting, enabling multiple video streams at different resolutions and bitrates to be sent from NVIDIA GeForce RTX PCs or RTX workstations. This ensures viewers get the highest-quality video their internet connection can support.

Twitch’s Automatic Stream Configuration tool even helps you sort out the ideal settings to use without the need to understand different video codecs and bitrates or go through extensive testing to see what will work best for you. 

These streams are about to get even better, too. An important part of the stream quality is the encoder used, and Twitch is about to add the HEVC codec in closed beta for streamers. The effect using this codec has with the NVIDIA encoder is substantial. It’s able to provide a 25% efficiency improvement, which translates directly to the stream quality. In other words, viewers will be able to watch streams in higher quality, with fewer artifacts and encoding errors at the same bitrate they receive today. This also means more viewers can tap into higher-resolution and higher-frame rate viewing. 

Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting is just the start of the extra enhancement you can get for your livestreams using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX PC or RTX workstation. An NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics card can already help you run your games at higher qualities so that gameplay looks great. NVIDIA Broadcast further taps into the AI power of your RTX