Then the issue kind of becomes software support. For example, something like Handbrake will gladly use AV1, but Kdenlive will refuse to acknowledge that it exists (at least for hardware encode, last I checked; that said, they still mark NVENC as experimental).

Also, OBS handles AV1 nicely, but you can’t stream to a site like Twitch because they only support H264 outside of specific experiments.

That said, Arc GPUs are nice, I have an A580 and while the drivers aren’t as mature as Nvidia or AMD, I got it for a pretty good price and they’re gradually patching things out.

That only works if you actually own a desktop though. It's too bad they don't have some ultra tiny SD card sized accelerator addon system or something for laptops