Soldato
If you download the nightly build from github:Only slight annoyance earlier, checking out the AV1 encoding via Handbrake and came to realise that AV1 via HW )Envenc) is not supported yet but is apparently in the mainline for the next snapshot release (note added in March) - I have the latest version but NVenc is only under H265 and H264 with the option to use AV1 (SVT) - I tried it anyway,
Source video from a game capture: 7.1GB
Encoded to H264 NVenc: 3.7GB
Encoded to H.265 NVenc - 1.8GB
Visually, the quality appears the same, average encode rate 171fps for both which is about 30fps or so higher encoding rate than the 3080 ti for the same codecs at these settings (average).
I tried AV1 but as it's software only in handbrake, it was encoding at 30fps and would have taken 17 minutes vs the 3 minutes of the above, so will wait until NVenc is supported for AV1. The bit benefit is that whilst you have to use higher bitrates in 264/265 to retain good quality, you can get the same quality with only 6-8Mbps bitrate using AV1, so being able to smash out AV1 transcodes from game recordings etc that are half the size of H265 is quite appealing, means uploading to youtube etc is much faster too.
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