Why is Black Friday a thing ? <| sep |> So he could buy the other shield . <| sep |> Well , I don ' t know if nobody knows . But it could be good it could be bad . The words and arguments speak for themselves just ordered , well formed , sensible English sentences . If people want to find some angle that they can then reflexively argue against , then some obscuring may be a good thing . Tell the truth , but tell it slant , like Dickinson said . If , however , I ' m obfuscating with pedantry or needlessly esoteric terminology , then it ' s indeed a strange and bad thing . <| sep |> You should pay attention than software encoding uses only CPU like x 265 in Megui or any other like this . GPU encoding is builtin in some specific cards to do it job alone without CPU help . The CPU software encoding has adjustable quality levels to achieve slower but higher quality or faster encoding and lower quality . GPU builtin encoders are focused in speedlow quality with no adjustable quality level . But since you encoding your footage pretty fast with x 265 and a old CPU i guess you using the fastest x 265 preset which give the lowest quality . I guess H 265 from Pascal should give some quality close to x 265 Ultrafast . If you look techspot test there is a single comparison between x 265 medium vs NVENC HEVC at same bitrate , and NVENC is much worse . It was better if they used x 265 ultrafast to compare since GPU encoders were focused to do realtime encoding like gameplay recording where you can keep bitrate high to maintain quality . GPU encoding is not really created to reencoding at low bitrate and maintain quality .