Best/least expensive GPU for decent Plex transcoding?
I’m looking to move from a Synology NAS with Plex to get something dedicated that is more powerful/can do more transcoding streams at once.
What is everyone using and how many streams can you transcode at once?
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I've used as little as a virtual machine running on my gaming computer to a full blown dedicated server. Really for transcoding as long as it has some cpu cores you can have a good dedicated older machine running plex fine. You don't need a gpu at all for a handful of streams. I think my max concurrent was 5 ever and I only upgraded for maintainability purposes.
Depends what you’re transcoding to… show me a CPU (without a built in encoder like recent ones) that can handle a 4K HDR transcode…
I might just have lower standards here, but most of my content is 1080p at best for movies. Having 2k 4K HDR releases just isn't viable for most people, now at 1080p it is a bit more palatable. I incorrectly assumed his content composition, so yes my setup isn't for all scenarios.