CQP with custom offset offers higher quality than ICQ, this old Quicksync bitrate method overview is still valid:
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Constant QP (CQP) provides the most control and best performance. Without question, the best coding efficiency with Intel codecs can be obtained via CQP plus custom content analysis. CQP often has significant performance advantages as well. CQP operates most closely to reference implementations. It is the most direct way to access codec capabilities and measure the effects of encoder parameter/algorithm trade-offs and also is the clearest way to evaluate against other codec algorithm implementations.
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https://software.intel.com/content/w...media-sdk.html
For a basic user ICQ is easier to handle, there is just one global setting and that's it. Furthermore ICQ does not really scale over 5 bframes (16 bframes can be worse than 5 at low bitrate) whereas CQP scales really good beyond 5 bframes even at low bitrate. Here I did include both ICQ and CQP:
https://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php...&postcount=369
On Iris Xe it automatically uses ctu 64 (Gen 9 ctu 32), this can't be changed at the moment. Tskip and SAO are also enabled on Tigerlake which I can't disable. Reference frames best leave it auto, with 16 bframes+bpyramid Intel sets it to 6 reference frames, I've tried 8 reference frames but there is no improvement.