Problems exporting to H264 out of Premiere CC

I'm trying to export out of Adobe Premiere CC (7.2.1) to H.264 (quicktime specifically) and am having some rather persistent issues with image quality/artifacting.
I'm on Mavericks 10.9.2
I'm working with 2.8 Ghz Intel Xeon Processors, 32gb ram, and have tried two different graphics cards. An AMD Radeon 5770 1GB and a NVidia GTX 680 2GB.
My source footage is primarily ProRes 1920x1080 29.97.
My output setting is Quicktime .MOV H.264 1920x1080 29.97 at 20 mb/s using Maximum render quality.
I've set the video renderer to use Open CL, CUDA, and Software Only and have gotten identical results.
I've also tried exporting both out of Premiere and Media Encoder and have gotten identical results.
The quality of the export is dramatically lower than what I'm accustomed to with this bitrate and resolution. Our delivery format for TV and the Web is H.264, so I'm fairly used to this filetype. I know, what it's supposed to look like at certain resolutions and bitrates. In the past, when we used Final Cut, we would output to a ProRes master and export an H.264 MOV from Quicktime 7. If I use that workflow, (exporting to ProRes master from Premiere and then encoding that ProRes Master to H.264 using QT7), I get much better results. More detail in the image. Way less banding. A much sharper image.
The problem is that we've made the move to Premiere, and would like to take advantage of the Premiere workflow. Being able to skip the step of exporting a ProRes master would save time and storage. But I can't do that with these quality issues. Has anyone had similar issues exporting to H.264 .MOV from Premiere CC?

Just thought I'd update this post once more with a bit more information I've learned. I think what was ultimately causing the drop in quality for my encode was the keyframes option in Premiere. I think the way this happens is that when you select the "quicktime" format in the export settings menu, it defaults to the "NTSC DV" encoding preset. By default, the NTSC DV Keyframe value is "1" and the option to change it is grayed out. But, If you change the video codec (as opposed to changing the preset) to "H.264", the keyframe option is un-grayed, but it inherits whatever the value was in the previous video codec that was chosen, as opposed to automatically assigning a value that's appropriate to the resolution, codec, and bitrate you've chose. So, in my case, the H.264 codec had all the right information that I usually use (like resolution, bit-rate, etc.), but it was using a keyframe value that's normally used for NTSC DV. I'm not accustomed to adjusting keyframe values, so I didn't notice the discrepancy for quite awhile, and had bad exports as a result.

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