AMD Confirms Support for Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting

At CES 2024 earlier this year, NVIDIA and Twitch announced a collaboration named “Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting,” aimed at revolutionizing traditional live streaming transmission and encoding. This initiative is designed to offer GeForce graphics card users a higher quality, more convenient, lower latency, and buffer-free streaming experience. NVIDIA previously confirmed that its GPUs allow “Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting” to handle five concurrent streams of different transcoding qualities.

Recently, AMD has confirmed that the Radeon RX 6000 and 7000 series graphics cards also support “Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting” technology, though the number of concurrent streams and supported transcoding formats have not been specified. Information on other aspects can be found on Twitch’s official website.

According to Twitch, Radeon RX 6000 and 7000 series graphics cards require AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.4.1 or newer drivers, with the operating system being Windows 10 or 11. Currently, two applications support this technology: OBS Studio 30.2+ and XSplit Broadcaster 4.5.2406.1801+, focusing on 1080P resolution and the H.264/AVC codec.

In the future, “Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting” will expand to include AV1 and HEVC codecs, providing even higher quality streams. Additionally, support for 1440P and 2160P resolutions is rumored to be under testing, although support for above 60FPS and HDR has not yet been scheduled for testing.