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I use OBS and handbrake fairly regularly both for recording and streaming, you want better quality, smaller size, slower (recording) = use CPU - fast, big files, less quality (streaming) = use NVENC/Quick sync/AMD alternative. Yes, there is still some CPU overhead when using NVENC, but it's very small, and if you stream while gaming the quality is capped at (usually) 6k by the service itself, so it's always good to check the advanced settings 
There isn't really much difference between a 980ti and a 4090 is terms of raw quality as it's mostly set by whatever program you're using, simply which codecs are available and how fast it processes the image. Read somewhere that we were supposed to be able to use the tensor cores on the new ones to further offload/improve recording/streaming, but don't quote me on it.
From reviews, AMD cards actually got much better encoding generationally than Nvidia, but don't have hands-on experience to compare
There isn't really much difference between a 980ti and a 4090 is terms of raw quality as it's mostly set by whatever program you're using, simply which codecs are available and how fast it processes the image. Read somewhere that we were supposed to be able to use the tensor cores on the new ones to further offload/improve recording/streaming, but don't quote me on it.
From reviews, AMD cards actually got much better encoding generationally than Nvidia, but don't have hands-on experience to compare
