Please do not subscribe to this channel, it is a utility channel I use from time to time for things such as this, it is not partnered/monetized, nor does it link to any of my other channels or any other material, this is here purely for educational/guidance purposes and not any kind of promotion or reward.Įxactly, the profiles youtube uses makes those super high resolution video's worthwhile, if only for their bitrate allowances. Overall though, Shadowplay is lossy, it provides low file sizes with low performance hit, but the likes of DXtory produces a big step up in capture quality. However if viewed before upload, the difference between 10Mb and 50Mb is massive and if you were uploading footage to another service the results could be very different. I hope this helps people who are potentially looking at using ShadowPlay to record gameplay for upload to YouTube and would like to see what each bit rate looks like once the YouTube compression/encoding has gotten a hold of it before choosing one or having to spend a long time to upload their own clips, maybe you don't have a ShadowPlay compatible card and would like to see if the results of its use are what you require and if it's worth investing in one to use ShadowPlay specifically for YouTube.Īll clips are uploaded direct without any alteration or editing for a more pure comparison scenario.Īs can be seen, for ~5x the file size it is not worth using 50Mb if you are going to upload the footage specifically to YouTube because the compression greatly erodes the benefits. The resolution of gameplay and capture is 1080p, all Ultra settings with 4XMSAA and HBAO, captured with Nvidia ShadowPlay (30fps) at 10Mb, 20Mb, 30Mb, 40Mb and 50Mb bit rates for comparison.

The purpose of this was to record the set run on all 5 10Mb bit rate increments of encoding for Nvidia Shadowplay's H.264 codec, and to showcase exactly how each raw video will look when uploaded directly to YouTube. I used the helicopter with the bars across the window because you can see the effect the different rates have on the way the edges are shown. I have completed a small set out run for the Battlefield 4 Test Range map on all 5 settings, it is approximately 1 minute per video.

Nvidia shadowplay audio quality