Question / Help NVENC vs QuickSync in 2018

[jlw_4049]

I have googled and really haven't found much information.

I know that NVENC gets better/new features/more effecient with each major GPU release. I'm assuming QuickSync gets the same treatment, maybe to a lesser degree.
Is quick sync really that much worse in 2018? Considering you have a newer generation 6, 7 ,8+ chip.

I have an i7 6700k and with the preset set to Quality don't notice much of a different at 6k bitrate vs NVENC.

 

[Zidakuh]

The difference starts to show more drastically at lower bitrates
At "high" bitrates, the difference isn't that easy to see, other than in PSNR and SSIM values

 

[jlw_4049]

But for streaming at 6000, I mean is there really much of a difference in them?

NVENC hits the performance harder then QuickSync.

I understand QuickSync 1 wasn't very good, but it's had 5 revisions since then.

 

[Zidakuh]

If you are streaming at 6000kbps, then it doesn't really have much difference, no

 

[BK-Morpheus]

If you stream with 1080p 60fps, a bitrate of 6000kbit/s is still very low for fast games, so you should see differences between NVENC and x264. Not sure, if the difference between Quicksync and NVENC is also noticable.