How is AV1 better than HEVC x264 and x265?

Question

Does it give the same quality as HEVC but at smaller size?

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Answer 1

If you want to dive into the algorithm differences, on page two of this article there’s a table of the two side by side and how they work under the hood.

https://fastvdo.com/pubs/spie/spie2018/perfCompAV1-spie2018.pdf