X264 Image Quality Analysis: SLOW is NOT worth it (GN Follow-Up)

I sat out to finally prove something that I've been saying for a long time: X264 Slow is not as magical as people say it is, and it's definitely not worth the performance trade-off for 99% of streamers. Oh, and AMD's streaming benchmark at E3 2019 was a really terrible showing. I think I did a good job here and after many more hours than I'd prefer to admit, I'm ready to show you why.

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This is a follow-up to GamersNexus's video: Explaining AMD's Misleading Marketing: X264 Stream Quality & Benchmarks -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzaXvEPyKd0

Also working against AMD is they oddly chose 10mbps for their bitrate - at which point, my testing proves that even VeryFast is of similar quality to Slow, so using slow was still a very poor benchmark choice.

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Intro - 00:00
About This Video (context) - 01:50
Misleading vs. Lying - 02:59
Methodology - 06:34
Comparisons - 08:36
Tips to Improve Image Quality - 20:13
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