If you don't need it for AI shenanigans then you're better off with the smaller arcs for under a 100...they can do av1 too

I don't know how big the impact really is, but Intel is pretty far behind on encoder quality mostly. Oh wait, on most codecs they are pretty far behind, but av1 they seem pretty competitive? Neat.

Apologies for the video link. But a recent pretty in depth comparison: https://youtu.be/kkf7q4L5xl8