Back at CES 2024, Twitch introduced Enhanced Broadcasting, a multi-track transcode streaming feature that allows the audience to view the streams regardless of the bit rate. This technology was designed for OBS, the streaming platform, and works with NVIDIA GPUs.
And now, along with NVIDIA GPUs, AMD Radeon graphics cards will also support the Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting. As per the official announcement, AMD’s Radeon RX 7000 and RX 6000 graphic cards will have full support for the Twitch feature. Do note though that this feature is available on OBS – not OBS Streamlabs, at least for now.
Enhanced Broadcasting will work with AMD’s RDNA 3 and RDNA 2 GPUs
AMD took to X (formerly Twitter) to make the announcement. “Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting is here for AMD Radeon users!” AMD’s post reads on X.
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At the moment, AMD has not clarified the number of concurrent stream qualities or any details about supported codes. With NVIDIA GPUs, the enhanced broadcasting can deliver up to five concurrent videos of various qualities for users to pick from. So it is likely that it would be similar for AMD.
Apart from this, Twitch’s blog has shed some light on it. As per Twitch, the new feature will be supported on Windows 10 and Windows 11. As far as GPU compatibility is concerned, users will need to run Adrenaline 24.4.1 or newer drivers. Currently, the Enhanced Broadcasting will be available for 1080p resolution at 60 FPS and H.264/AVC codecs. Support for higher quality streams via AV1 and HVEC codes will arrive later. Twitch also shared that 1440p and 4K resolutions are being tested.
At present, AMD users with the right GPUs will be able to use the feature with OBS Studio v30.2 or newer and XSplit Broadcaster 4.5.2406.1801 or newer.
Compared to NVIDIA, Twitch’s Enhanced Broadcasting on AMD GPUs may seem quite limited. This is because NVIDIA uses the NVENC encoder for video encoding, which is available in multiple generations of NVIDIA’s graphics card. In any case, the latest move will help AMD enhance the streaming experience, and we hope to see the Enhanced Broadcasting support made available on more Radeon GPUs.
