AMD Radeon RX 7000 and RX 6000 GPUs Now Support Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting

AMD’s latest Radeon RX 7000 “RDNA 3” and Radeon RX 6000 “RDNA 2” GPUs now feature full support for Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting with multiple encodes.

Enhanced Broadcasting Now Available for AMD GPUs

Twitch’s Enhanced Broadcasting, unveiled at CES 2024, is designed to work seamlessly with the popular streaming platform OBS and GPU manufacturers like AMD and NVIDIA. This feature creates multiple versions of your stream at different resolutions using your GPU’s dedicated encoder resources. The viewer receives the stream resolution that best matches their internet quality.

Initial Perceptions and System Requirements

Initially, it was believed that Twitch’s Enhanced Broadcasting would be exclusive to NVIDIA GPUs. However, a recent update from Twitch confirmed that AMD’s Radeon platform can also leverage this feature. Here are the system requirements:

GPU and Driver Version: NVIDIA GeForce 900-series or newer with NVIDIA driver 545.92 or newer, AMD Radeon RX 6000/7000 Series or newer with AMD Adrenalin 24.4.1 minimum
Operating System: Windows 10 or Windows 11
Broadcast Software: OBS Studio v30.2 (or newer), XSplit Broadcaster 4.5.2406.1801 (or newer)

Recommended System Requirements

Display: 1920x1080 at 60fps
Sustained Upstream Bandwidth: 12 Mbps

AMD vs. NVIDIA

Currently, Twitch’s Enhanced Broadcasting supports AMD’s RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 GPUs, which is a more limited scope compared to NVIDIA’s broader support across multiple generations. This limitation is likely due to NVIDIA’s superior video encoding capabilities, particularly through their NVENC encoder. Despite this, the inclusion of AMD’s Radeon GPUs in Enhanced Broadcasting is a significant boost for streamers using AMD hardware.