A lot worse, but your CPU doesn't take a hit. NVENC doesn't have very good quality at low bitrates, but it's fine for local recording (1080p@15Mbps+) that will

A lot worse, but your CPU doesn't take a hit. NVENC doesn't have very good quality at low bitrates, but it's fine for local recording (1080p@15Mbps+) that will be transcoded later. Here's a comparison video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV5btdqQfu4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV5btdqQfu4 According to this it's almost equivalent when you compare 720p@5Mbps and 1080p@12Mbps, which is way more than most streaming sites will do: http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2014/presentations/S4646-high-performance-video-encoding-gpus.pdf http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2014/presentations/S464...