OBS Studio: Best 2K 1440p QHD YouTube Streaming Settings for 30fps & 60fps (OBS Studio Tutorial)

The best 2K 1440p QHD KZbin streaming settings for 30fps & 60fps is simple in OBS Studio, and in this tutorial I show you the bitrate and encoder to use.
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[@ThaMighty90]

You confused bytes and bits here which is really fatal because 8 bit are 1 byte. I hope you make or have an updated version of this because 13000 Kbps (Kilobit NOT byte) is NOT 13 Megabyte it is 1.625 Megabyte per second. Sry if im a bit late to the party but it confused me in the beginning.

[@Praichu]

Thanks for this info man, you're a lifesaver. I've got 200+Mbps upload but thought I needed more just for streaming at this quality, so thanks for the clarification.

[@BattleZooYT]

19.000 Kbps are not 19 MB/s, it's 19.000 kiloBITS, not kiloBYTES. so we are talking about 2,375 MegaBytes per second, not 19 MegaBytes.

[@MidMOGrower]

19,000 kB per second is 19 MB per second. I don’t know what you’re talking about you need to go back to math class bud.

[@BattleZooYT]

​@@MidMOGrower dude replying to my comment after a year sending me to the math class without a basic understanding of IT. Let me give you a lesson... Here we explain data transfer rates, not capacity or storage. Kbps and Mbps refers to data transfer rates in multiples of bits, not bytes. So its KiloBits not KiloBytes. A byte contains 8 bits. And therefore 19000 kbps, which are 19000 KiloBits per second are 19 MegaBits per second. It's not MegaBytes. And 19 MegaBits are 2,375 MegaBytes. You are welcome. ❤

[@BearShot]

@@BattleZooYTdang cooked him wait so how much would I need to stream 1440p

[@FlyeKitesJay]

Hi, I have been testing 2k streams lately, I have 1gb up and down internet speed and a very good pc so I am not worried about that but would you recommend bumping up the CBR for a better quality of stream because the streams still look very choppy sometimes and I am running 40k CBR at the moment :-/ Thank you :)

[@tsteaktv1146]

Did you ever get this resolved?

[@arcanedame3015]

These are the best and I love that you made separate videos for the different options. I've been trying them out to see what works best for me and your consistent format makes it so easy to come back and try one of the others. Thank you!

[@emi123nem]

I have no issues streaming 4k on M1 Pro only utilizes around 20% CPU at the peaks with apple hardware accelerated encoder from multiple 4k streams

[@SpunzieBoy]

I’m not getting the 1440p option on my obs?

[@RobertMolders]

Watched dozens of tutorials about this, no one ever worked...untill I didn't find this one! Thanks mate brilliant! (... and you have a new sub ;) )

[@KingG13]

Second video of yours that's helped. Subbed up. Thank you sir

[@FCVentura]

Really amazing video and straight to the point. I literally got the resolution and quality I wanted for my streams. Thank you so much

[@ScoundrullonYouTube]

Super easy to follow along! I wish every how to video was like this, straight to the point, no ridiculously 45 second long intro video, no talking about your day and trying to crack jokes LOL there's nothing worse than being in front of your computer or under your car and you just need the freaking information and the people in the video are talking about what kind of coffee they poured themselves or something ridiculous LOL

[@BenchmarkingTom]

Hi. With the configuration of RTX 4090 + 7950X3D and an internet connection of 1000/300 Mbps, which option do you recommend more: x264 or Nvidia NVENC? From my tests, it appears that when a game is more CPU-intensive, like CS2 or Valorant, the Nvidia codec gives slightly better results. However, for games that are more GPU-intensive, x264 provides a few additional FPS. Do they also differ in quality or anything else that could help decide which is better? I've also seen the Enhanced Broadcast options, but from what I've checked, it seems to perform more calculations on our hardware, which also makes it more taxing and reduces performance compared to traditional codecs - but it offers 10500 bitrate instead of 6000 and the possibility to choose stream quality even without a partnership. Additionally, I have a 1440p monitor, so I'm not sure if it's a good choice to run the stream with only one available resolution of 1440p or scaled down to 1080p to ensure no one has issues with lags.

[@Ev-001]

What do I do when I'm streaming to twitch? I've got a 1440p monitor but when I scale it to 1080p the text gets blurry and colors get washed out. Any suggestions?

[@SonOfWalhall]

What colorsettings are you using? Try to put it on Limited instead of Full.

[@walkingdadtv]

thanks for the video! but its "megabits per second" and not "megabytes per second". THAT would be crazy! :)

[@HonestYohan]

Yeah, repeatedly hearing that mistake was driving ME crazy 🤪 🤣

[@sonny5974]

hey my upload speed is ~400 Mbps, does that mean for my Stream bitrate setting I can put 200,000 Kbps?

[@Simulanderson]

upload speed here 1.5gbps... in 2 years, those speed are impossible! thanks a lot with your video.

[@Alex.UA6]

Now that the option AMD H.265 encoder is available, could I use that?

[@DecaLFG]

I love the confidence. Thank you sir

[@ohRehab]

Idk if some1 it's going to see this but I can't find any 2k stream benchmark, so my question is if I can stream on 2k with this pc: B550m ds3h, 32gb 3200, r7 5700x, 4070ti, PSU 750+gold.

[@goodlookintv2513]

My base canvas resolution doesn’t go higher than 1080? How do I get it to go to 1440?

[@sunsty1e]

literally every obs question I had Ive ended having to come here due to not getting clear answers elsewhere...thx

[@mikasaari5379]

How I can add mic and sound output for game streamiung?

[@Enochsings_Ayuk]

I was not able to paste the same setting on my Base Canvas and Output settings

[@antipathy17]

Thank you, giving it a try on rumble. Same name.

[@MetalGearTrav]

I have 950 mb/sec download and upload speeds, that's not a lie I bought the best internet possible in my city so would a bit rate of 30000 kbs be ok?

[@cyberthief1836]

Hi Andrew, I have a question for which you may have more experience to answer. I'll describe briefly the setup. There are two PCs, A and B. The PC - A is the gaming one that runs on a 4K 144Hz monitor, a RTX 3090 and an OBS instance sending NDI to PC - B over a separate gigabit network that's not connected to the internet. PC - B runs also OBS, has dual 2080 Tis, receives the NDI output from A successfully in 4K 60fps, and the image looks great on the preview with almost no latency at all. However, when I stream on KZbin, the footage looks terrible. It's worth mentioning that PC - B has also 4K settings configure globally, but on the streaming tab, I downscale it to 2K and stream it with 15000 kbps bitrate (the internet connection from PC - B is 150/150 Mbps uplink downlink). I can't imagine what's wrong. It's been a while since I started troubleshooting to figure out the bad quality of the 2K video that comes on KZbin, but no luck thus far. Any ideas?

[@NaenTechTM]

Thanks for the info...now I got the idea of live streaming 2k....

[@bombanade]

TY SO MUCH for this video!!! i will be booking my session. time to switch from twitch to YT thanks again.

[@steff9775]

So...I've got a Ryzen9 5950x cooled by a 360AIO by asus, 64GB RAM and an RTX3090fe. Would you recommend streaming 2K on the CPU or the GPU?

[@lorckyttv8735]

is this still ok to use WITH twitch

[@Goliatnewborn]

I will like to do either 1080p 60 fps but my upload is 11mb. any recommendation?

[@BlackEasterEgg]

so i have 1gb/s internet so i need to stream at 500mb/s ???

[@glebpalchin6809]

6000kbps is not 6MB/s, you have to di a reasearch on what is the difference between 1 kilobyte and 1 kilobit. so 6000 kbps * 0.000125 = 0.75MB/s (Megabytes)

[@awalldigital]

Sorry for the incorrect wording.

[@DuffleBagBankz504]

Thank you 💯💯💯. I just subbed. Used your settings and my streams look amazing 🔥

[@La4edimension]

theres a bunch of new settings now in 2022, would like to see an updated version of this video

[@Jdyo]

Really great video man lots of love

[@jb510]

Do you think streaming at 1440p30 is worthwhile? I don't have the encoding power or bandwidth for 4k30. I could do 1080p60 but this is just talking head video, no game play, no action. Camera/Camlink is 4k30 capable. Just always seemed weird to me OBS doesn't show it as a size out of the box.

[@AdamBaird]

Do any settings change if you have a 4k monitor but want to stream in 1440?

[@MrFoodie88]

So I just did a couple speed test via my phone connected to my Wi-Fi and my highest was 216.8 Mbps download and 39.2 Mbps upload. So will it be higher when I plug a Cat8 Ethernet cable into my Pc??

[@Optimus_prim33]

I will try these settings, thanks. I have 300 MBPS uploading/downloading speed.

[@juampo9490]

Hello Awall love your videos.. Have one question for you: wich are your settings option for a PC with ryzen 7 5800x, 3080 10gb and 16gb 3200mhz of RAM with 21mb upload for stream at 1440p? thx very much!! cya!

[@95928225]

Good tips man. greetings fromPeru.

[@Urbrainongaming]

I will probably take you up on the tips things at some point

[@Dr.Spoofs]

If I'm playing in 4K but I want to stream in 2k, should my base canvas be 2k or 4k ? I have a 4k monitor and I wanted to stream 4k but it says encoder overload. I'm running a Ryzen 7 5800X3D with an RX 6950 XT 16MB graphics card. Should I be using my graphics card for encoding or is the cpu capable of that task ?

[@youssb316]

Does the 2k settings in OBS work if you using restream for multi channel?

[@djpolo1285]

DOPE STUFF MY GUY!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!

[@lXotiic]

Can i hendel it with a i5 9400f and a 1660 6gb?

[@BreakinoutGaming]

Thanks!

[@hyperxking8954]

megabytes or megabits....mbps | MB/s??

[@TactiMerc]

I know this is older but I have a Ryzen 5 3600 cpu and a 2080 super gpu. I stream on KZbin and record content. My recordings are flawless in quality but streaming I’ve noticed has some fuzziness. My rig can handle base and output resolution being 1440p right? 30fps lanzcos 36 samples.

[@christagchurchbelize9668]

Your videos are alway informative. Thank you so much. I use green scree in my live streaming. It starts fine but as the time goes by the video gets blurry. Not sure why. Can you help?

[@desertshadow72]

What is your upload bitrate on SpeedTest?

[@zezan321]

Its actualy 26,3 megabits not megabytes per second. Bitrate is calculating in Kilobits per second not KiloBytes :)

[@winstology101]

Thanks this video really helped!

[@snouzz-gaming]

Hi and if I have an amd Card and 3440x1440 display and i wonna do lets pla so how can i manage a perfect video? In game it seem fine no stucks or bugs but if i record it and see how it looks... paintfull.. its laggy .. (12990k, rx6900xt) thx!

[@FerdiBerlian]

can my gtx 1650 super do this ?

[@ThorBIH]

is this for 1PC set up or DUAL stream set up?

[@XDG]

Thanks AWall, this helped a lot!

[@issaissa7240]

we remove all audo ? this is bad not working

[@KapitanRutain]

Finaly someone making sense👍

[@purpleati]

"if you stream in 2k you probably have a good computer" dude my 1650 is smoking..

[@kavaxus5743]

Thanks! Great video!

[@wilkinmeta]

i need this for twitch

[@Luredreier]

4:58 Hum, I did 50 000 Kbps max but with variable bitrate down to about 10 000 min I think if I don't remember wrong. It's been a while since I did this stuff, and don't have OBS installed on my system atm. I think I used variable frame rate too (got freesync). If not it was 60 fps at least (that was the output result after youtube did its own encoding).

[@thatoneleafsfan971]

will this work for a 3440x1440 ultrawide monitor?

[@syco_c21]

Hii I tried with your recomennded settings, it just wont stream at 2k (max 1080p). I'm new to streaming, is it that a selected few accounts have it?

[@wilkingaming]

i need this for Twitch plz

[@watthehackyt]

Best man!

[@pumpknot]

Such a good video

[@PhillyShredzz]

My desk stop shows but my games I play don’t pop up on my streaming pc. I just got a 2560x1440 Alienware monitor. When I streamed 1080p my games would show. I copied this video and still no success. How do I get my game capture off my elgato on my new resolution ? Anyone

[@SpoonyPizzas]

Great video! cheers

[@RoblesJunior]

nice video man

[@TactiMerc]

I also have fiber internet that gets a constant 940mbps upload. And close to 980 download and 0-1 ping. Constantly

[@Johan87577]

Great video. Does these 30 and 60 FPS settings affect the viewer? I'm on a 100/100Mbit connection but I'm afraid streaming on 1440p could affect the viewers on slow connections?

[@SpunzieBoy]

Nah it’s allg

[@thedanliest]

It will if you don't have quality options, and your viewers can't select a lower quality. KZbin streaming always has quality options, but if you're streaming on twitch and you're not a Twitch Partner, it's a roll of the dice. However, I have found that when I start streaming, I can just keep stopping and re-starting the stream and I'll usually get quality options within a few restarts.

[@BlindSp0tz]

You're taking 13000kbps, adding 50% of that, and ending up at 19MB/s somehow? How do you explain the change of unit, or the fact that adding 50% to 13mbps suddenly requires you to have 152mbps (19MB/s)?

[@knexy1561]

why are my graphic all mestup when i am trying to record with 1440p

[@KenitobsChile]

[@swervetrades]

amazing video

[@N.N.77]

I felt like I was in English class.

[@Eklerche]

You keep saying "megabytes per second" when in fact it's "megabits per second" 27000 Kbps = 3.375 Mega Bytes (not Mega bits).

[@DudaSimon]

Thanks

[@CryptixBtw]

i have a 1650 and a i7 6000 series and 8gb of ram

[@adrianbunea2006]

Not sure why bitrate is an issue. My ISP gives me huge internet speed for free. My internet speed test gave me 600 Mbps upload speed. Not sure what's normal in the rest of the world.

[@jamesrussell9124]

bitrate affects the quality of the video stream. too low(below 2000), and its a fuzzy mess. Too high, stream might lag. Might crash nvenc.

[@Manta2kGaming]

9000 is min probly best donig 1080p at 9000 ,,,,,, if u want to stream to yt in 2k ul need a RTX4060 or higher gpu that can encode in AV1 format for sure

[@OBLIIVIIONx]

Hi mate, great video! Me and my friend are currently having issues streaming to KZbin, regardless of our stream settings bitrate etc we are getting packet burst symbol in orange on WarZone. I have a 3060TI and Ryzan 5 5600x, my Internet is 60mbps download and 18mbp upload... if I stream at 1440p, 1080p or 720p I still get packet burst. If I stream to twitch I have no issues at all.. is this something you can help us with? Thanks for your time!

[@mel_fps]

Have you fix It?????

[@OBLIIVIIONx]

@@mel_fps Go to search bar and type cmd, right click and go to administrator then type this. 'netsh interface tcp show global' Then change where it says auto tune if its set to 'normal' change to 'disable' worked for me! 😁

[@DeathDeclined]

Should I stream 1440p even if I am using a 1080p monitor? I have a power 2 pc setup and good internet

[@SureShotMediaUS]

Honestly my stream quality looked way better doing this. You can type in the 1440p res manually as base resolution to force it. Then I fit my 1080p capture to screen. It’s a good cheat to enable much higher bitrate and now my webcam at the bottom corner isn’t bottlenecked by the lower res.

[@SureShotMediaUS]

The only difference from his settings is keeping the downscaling filter the bilinear as you aren’t downscaling. I’ll test “max quality” tonight but regular “quality” looked fine.

[@DeathDeclined]

@@SureShotMediaUS yeah I’ve been doing it the past couple months now and it works well

[@kalliankgaming]

Do you have to have a 1440p monitor to stream 1440p with OBS? I can stream 1440p with Mirillis Action and I do not have a 1440p monitor. These helpful guides do not tell you the basics. I can even stream in 4K with Mirillis Action if I had enough upload speed. I have never used OBS and was trying it out as a backup streaming encoder. However, I cannot see any settings to change the resolution to 2560 x 1440 in OBS.

[@goodlookintv2513]

Same here I have the same problem

[@kalliankgaming]

@@goodlookintv2513 Maybe Mirillis Action instead is not free. However, it works very well. It is far easier to set up.

[@zxnkairo]

I’m using stream labs obs and I set them to 3440x1440 and then it changed while I stream back to 1280x720p

[@awalldigital]

+KAIRO You mean recording vs streaming?

[@spector8900]

what if i have exactly 27 mbps per second upload is that still ok?

[@desertshadow72]

No need 50% buffer

[@trip5003]

Still in 1080p . Did all the steps ...

[@KingG13]

X264 with a 7900x? Probably a threadripper... yeah, I don't have that.

[@BennyBlawnk]

I don't know what's wrong with my settings every time I open up OBS my cod warzone app freezes. Im not trying to do nothing crazy just wanna to stream 1080p at 60 fps with a 1440p 165hz monitor and 2080 rtx.

[@dwrek2054]

I tried streaming Warzone on my single PC setup with a 5800x and 6900xt and that wasn't enough lol. That game is a pile of taped together trash. I could only stream that game with a dual PC stream setup. If you have a laptop at least, get a capture card and use the laptop as a stream PC. That's the best advice I can give to stream Warzone

[@gamesaverrgsr]

@@dwrek2054 I have a dual pc set up with a gaming desktop and a second pc laptop for streaming. I am using an Elgato HD60 S to do the job. Everything is connected properly and I have added the Elgato HD60 S as a capture device in OBS, but when I play a game or a video there is a delay in sound. Can anyone help out with this issue? I have read that one can delay the sound but it is not working for me. Help?

[@TheCrispyChip]

Whats the recommended for 557mb upload

[@PhoenixReturns]

He said max 18k, pretty simple stuff

[@thekissmyaxe2965]

I have 20 mbps upload speed. What bitrate would you recommend for 60 fps

[@awalldigital]

+SeboCrell what resolution?

[@thekissmyaxe2965]

@@awalldigital 1440p :)

[@Z28Gaming]

@@thekissmyaxe2965 Just use 12000. It'll work.

[@AliAlsoBreak]

good

[@DaMichaelViews]

i do this on a 6 core processer lol

[@Yaba414]

Mega Bit not Mega Byte :)

[@Luredreier]

3:46 That's supposed to be "advanced"? Jeez, compared to all the options you get with AMDs encoder this looks like the simple option...

[@STKReacts]

I have 2300 download and 2300 upload fiber with a 4090 and 13900k lol

[@DylOnTimin]

Me having 1gb up and down and him saying if your crazy :l

[@BloodyIron]

MegaBITS per second, not MegaBYTES. SMH.

[@-.unknown.-]

Megabits not megabytes