Can I stream off a laptop?

Laptops can stream games, but using one is generally far from ideal. If it’s your only computer and you don’t have a budget for a streaming rig, a laptop will do. Playing and streaming will really push these compact machines, though, and not all of them even have Ethernet ports for a more reliable wired connection.

Is 6 cores good for streaming?

6 cores should be enough provided to have the game, recording/streaming software, and maybe Discord running, and all nonessential background processes disabled. For multitasking, the more cores, the merrier, but you should be fine with 6c/12t.

Is more cores better than GHz?

Cores vs. Many CPUs have multiple cores, meaning that a single chip actually has more than one CPU chip inside of it. While one chip running at 5 GHz will usually be faster than two chips running at 2.5 GHz, it gets harder to compare a quad-core chip at 3.6 GHZ with a six-core chip at 3.2 GHz.

How many cores do games use 2020?

In general today, 4 cores are probably a minimum and 4 multithreaded cores is better. That said, game developers are shifting based on the changing ecosystem. Multicore CPUs are the norm even on budget CPUs like Celeron and Pentium and gaming systems today tend to have 8 or more cores.

Is there a 16 core processor?

Nearly 10 years ago, AMD attempted to break Intel’s stranglehold on the server market with the Opteron 6272, a 16-core processor with 16 threads.

How many threads can run on a single core?

You have 4 CPU sockets, each CPU can have, up to, 12 cores and each core can have two threads. Your max thread count is, 4 CPU x 12 cores x 2 threads per core, so 12 x 4 x 2 is 96. Therefore the max thread count is 96 and max core count is 48.

How many GHz is considered fast?

A clock speed of 3.5 GHz to 4.0 GHz is generally considered a good clock speed for gaming but it’s more important to have good single-thread performance. This means that your CPU does a good job of understanding and completing single tasks. This is not to be confused with having a single-core processor.

Do cores matter for streaming?

But simply put, yes more cores/threads helps tremendously with streaming. The loss of performance from a CPU with more cores/threads is pretty minimal. For streaming/multitasking in general, more cores/threads is certainly beneficial. Higher clock speed per core = better game performance for CPU intensive games.

Is 8 cores good for streaming?

The best CPU to get right now is also pretty good for budget streaming. Get an Nvidia Turing GPU, fire up the NVENC, and let the GPU do the sweaty work. You can stream at X264@faster in OBS at 1080p, but the NVENC quality is better. For medium and higher presets, an 8 core CPU is highly recommended.