Huh. Okay, lets see if I can get Handbrake to talk to my 3070, NVENC is better than I expected, the older generation (900 series) needed lots of bits to perform well, does worse than x264-veryfast.
With NVENC, even if NVidia continues to improve speed and quality until it beats Quicksync, there's still the fact that nearly all NVidia-equipped PCs are built with Intel's CPUs (I'm talking about ...