I there any benefit to encoding to 10-bits?

[hello_hello]

So .... the main benefit of 10-bit is to better see forehead pimples?

RE: post#2 above.

Maybe you should have chosen a rhetorical smiley.

[stonesfan187]

Better compression and I noticed I got fewer artifacts. I did some test encodes with NVENC H265. Still doesn't beat x264 medium imo though. I have a GTX1070 card. The newer RTX 20 and RTX 30 series cards may be a different story.

[lordsmurf]

So .... the main benefit of 10-bit is to better see forehead pimples?

RE: post#2 above.

Maybe you should have chosen a rhetorical smiley.

We need more smileys. We had many more in the 2000s.

I just find it odd. "Look how clear her pimples are with 10-bit!" ... and so we all want 8-bit instead.

[KarMa]

The only problem with 10-bit H264 is that none of the hardware decoders, or none that I know of supported 10-bit decoding. So you were stuck with software decoding, and 10-bit software decoding took more power than the 8-bit. With H265 they seem to have had 10-bit in mind from the start.

[forart.it]

AFAIK 10bit compression means smaller files:
- x265 - Always choose 10bit?
- QUICK COMPARE: AVC vs. HEVC, 8-bit vs. 10-bit Video Encoding
- Why does 10-bit save bandwidth (even when content is 8-bit)?