Alphatrack encoders are continuous and touch sensitive, it works fine in W10 though there is no more official support so some other DAWs may have issues, but with the Alphatrack Pro driver someone here wrote for Reaper it works even better than it did with the original driver.
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=81889
Never owned a faderport to compare as I wouldn't find much use for a unit with no screen to at minimum tell me which track I'm on!