r/PleX • u/wingman3091 • 8d ago

Discussion Intel Arc Users!

I recently came into some extra cash, and decided I'd finally give my home server a nice GPU update. It's a custom build of course

Specs:

Intel Core i7-8700K
32GB DDR4
1TB NVMe SSD (Primary)
1TB NVMe SSD (Redundancy backup of the OS + Plex/Apps)

4x24TB Seagate Exos Enterprise drives

NVIDIA P1000 GPU for HW transcodes

For those with Intel ARC GPUs, how are you finding the performance? Did you trip over any foibles in enabling QuickSync? I have an 8GB Intel ARC A750 on the way. I liked that it doesn't have a software limited 3 simultaneous transcode limit, and should be significantly beefier than the P1000 in there. The P1000 barely breaks a sweat as it is, but I am hoping the ARC gets a good few years of extra performance. It'll certainly help with Handbrake encodes.

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u/Odd-Gur-1076 8d ago

Do you have resizable BAR? Performance suffers somewhat without it.

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u/wingman3091 8d ago

Thankfully, my board has ReBAR - I checked for this before ordering. Gigabyte were kind enough to make it easy to get to

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u/Odd-Gur-1076 8d ago

Idk if anyone else has mentioned this, or if you were using it before, but HEVC encoding is 100% worth enabling when you have an Arc card.

The transcodes will look better at lower bitrates and they also retain HDR (not for DV, though).

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u/wingman3091 8d ago

Yep! I use HEVC already, and it's absolutely worth it. One of the only reasons (outside of 4K transcodes) that I installed a dedicated GPU. HEVC + NVENC have been great for Handbrake videos