"Use Maximum Render Quality" for Youtube ..?

Jim_Simon  wrote If you have CUDA turned on, then no. If you have CUDA turned off but aren't scaling any media, then still no.

Hi Jim, Jim Simon​ ... I've been reading up on the render quality options... came across your answer here, as well as an answer from 2010 in the following post... Re: "Maximum Render Quality" Better to turn it OFF when using CUDA MPE?

That other post is old I'm not sure how applicable it is these days which might clarify your answer to this thread...

In that older thread, it seems that in some cases maximum render quality (MRQ) can benefit some render operations which still use the CPU despite the GPU being present. Does this no longer apply given advances in tech since that old 2010 post?

I ask because your answer seems to imply that in the presence of CUDA there is no need to check the MRQ box where as that old post seems to imply there are cases for checking MRQ despite a GPU being present... cases which Adobe was apparently interested in diminishing over time. Perhaps they've been diminished to the point where the exceptions to the rule no longer apply.

A general layperson's test that old thread suggests one can take is to render a complex portion of a timeline twice, once with/without MRQ... if the MRQ render yields a longer encode time with a GPU present, that old thread indicates the longer time means the CPU is being used because MRQ is checked... which therefore supposedly indicates additional work of value is being done in the CPU despite the GPU's presence.

I'm guessing that way of seeing things may no longer apply or that you know MRQ has specifically no benefit for YouTube as a destination. Just curious which...  Thanks!