Nvidia's RTX NvEnc is beyond impressive... (GPU encoding explanation, x264 Medium Comparison)

I've used Nvidia's "NvEnc" GPU video encoder for my content creation on a daily basis for quite a few years now. But when it comes to low-bitrate live streaming, there's always been a trade-off of lower quality for higher performance compared to X264 CPU encoding. That is... UNTIL NOW! I put Nvidia's new RTX/Turing architecture's NvEnc improvements to the test vs x264.

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(NOTE: The Halo clips are mostly 30FPS due to an issue on my OBS config. Doesn't impact quality comparisons.)

DISCLOSURE: Nvidia sent me the RTX 2080 for purposes of review and performing NvEnc and video editing tests. This video is not sponsored, no one reviewed the video before it was published, etc.

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(Also all of my tests involved me playing the games from the OBS preview window w/ capture card latency etc. )

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Edited w/ DaVinci Resolve (scaling comparisons done in Adobe After Effects)

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