[Libav-user] Faster X265 encoding, buying new hardware, advice please?

[Dave]

On Tuesday 31 October 2017 02:22:00 Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> 2017-10-31 1:56 GMT+01:00 Dave <ffmpeg at dgmm.net>:
> 
> > Thanks, I'll look into NVENC
> 
> What my last comment meant was:
> Independent reports indicate that the quality of nvenc
> encodings is not on par with libx264.
> 
> It just depends on what you need.

As far as I can tell, it's not an option anyway unless I choose a 
different OS and I'd much rather keep everything the same.  I'd
need a very compelling reason to change :-)

It looks like I'm back in the position of balancing speed v ££££ :-)