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tonemapped · 16th January 2022, 02:15

The quality is slowly improving, and for non-grainy sources most people probably wouldn't notice. That being said, even the best NVENC encode with an RTX 3080 looks worse than a software --fast encode with x265.

One use I've found for NVENC is SD content, such as old DVDs. It does a good enough job there as there's not much detail to start with.

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tonemapped Video Fanatic Join Date: Jul 2021 Location: Surrey Posts: 89	The quality is slowly improving, and for non-grainy sources most people probably wouldn't notice. That being said, even the best NVENC encode with an RTX 3080 looks worse than a software --fast encode with x265. One use I've found for NVENC is SD content, such as old DVDs. It does a good enough job there as there's not much detail to start with. __________________ PC: R9 5900X \| 32GB 3600 MT/s RAM \| 2*1TB NVMe \| RTX 3080 \| water-cooled NAS: SM 48-bay 240TB+ storage \| Xeon 1220 \| 32GB DDR4 ECC HTPC: Pentium J5005 \| 16GB RAM \| 256GB SSD \| 15W