Yes, you would think that turning off hardware acceleration would take any post processing the video card did out of the equation, but with an nVidia device, or at least RTX cards, this is NOT true.
This kind soul’s suggestion to reset nVidia’s 3D settings in the nVidia control panel did indeed fix the problem. What confuses me is why only Brave was effected by this. However, this was a valid solution and solved my problem!
Thanks for the link!