AMD Radeon RX 7000 “RDNA 3” & RX 6000 “RDNA 2” GPUs Now Support Twitch’s Enhanced Broadcasting

AMD's latest Radeon RX 7000 "RDNA 3" & Radeon RX 6000 "RDNA 2" GPUs now feature full support for Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting with multiple encodes.

Twitch's Enhanced Broadcasting was unveiled to the public back at CES 2024, and it was designed to collaborate with the renowned streaming platform OBS, along with cooperation from GPU manufacturers like AMD and NVIDIA.

Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting is here for AMD Radeon users! https://t.co/6Eqc85rlWw

— AMD Radeon (@amdradeon) July 18, 2024

For a quick rundown on how Enhanced Broadcasting operates, it creates multiple versions of your stream, all with different resolutions, using your GPU's dedicated encoder resources, and then at the viewer's end, it streams the respective resolution based on their internet quality.

Initially, it was perceived that Twitch's Enhanced Broadcasting would be limited to NVIDIA's GPUs, and in a previous report, we mentioned how NVIDIA's GeForce 900 series or later GPUs would support the feature. However, an extensive update by Twitch revealed that AMD's Radeon platform will be able to leverage Enhanced Broadcasting. Here are the system requirements, as revealed by Twitch themselves.

What are the system requirements?

What are the recommended system requirements?

For now, Twitch's Enhanced Broadcasting will work with AMD's RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 GPUs, which is a much-confined scope compared to NVIDIA, which covers multiple generations. This is likely due to Team Green's superiority in video encoding capabilities, especially through their NVENC encoder, which is known to be much more capable than competitors. Regardless, it's still exciting to see AMD's Radeon GPUs getting the support for Enhanced Broadcasting, as it will boost the streaming experience on the platform.

News Source: Twitch