Try AV1
NVENC x265
How's AV1 compared to HEVC?
It will be faster to upload to youtube, and then download your video from youtube.
1fps.
>1FPS
Fuck this shit.
Solidly better at 4k and 8k. Somewhat better at 1080p.
Encoding time is currently 1000x worse though.
What I can do in 5 hours with HEVC takes ~100+ hours with AV1.
The only problem with NVENC is that it doesn't support b-frames.
Just keep it as 264. It's more compatible and no matter how high you put the bitrate re-encoding it will lower the quality.
Might as well hand him a shotgun to blow his brains out. It's essentially the same thing.
>hardware encoder
Pathetic. If you have that much storage, then invest in Threadripper or something jesus fucking christ.