(2023-08-16, 08:12 AM)bitmap Wrote: It's quality for bitrate and AV1 wins almost every time, save for a few niche cases..
The Intel QSV AV1 hardware encoder loses to the Intel QSV H265 hardware encoder in almost all instances, not by much but still, no point in using it if its inferior. This doesn't mean the codec itself is worse, just with this interation of GPUs it might not be worth making the change (if you only care about transcoding quality)
https://imgur.com/a/61fyhgf (purple line is QSV AV1 10Bit Quality output vs QSV H265 10Bit Quality on Intel Arc)