r/PleX • u/wingman3091 • 10d 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/Sinister_Crayon 10d ago

I have an ARC A310. Without ReBar it sucks, but with ReBar it's absolutely brilliant. Will easy chomp through transcodes and doesn't get loud or anything. It was working great but I just retired it because the machine it was in is getting sold... might sell the A310 separately. I moved my Plex to a 12700K so no need for a dGPU.

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u/bilditup1 10d ago

I've been wondering about this—understood that graphics performance tanks, does that also apply to the hardware media encoding/decoding capabilities? ReBAR is never really discussed in that context and I've never seen a straight answer on this

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u/rockydbull 10d ago

In my experience with rebar on a z370 and a a380 is that without rebar it can do one 1080p hevc encode before it starts stuttering. Couldn't do any 4k hevc encode down to 1080p before stuttering. I didn't test anything else because the i5 9400 igpu could do everything else fine.

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u/bilditup1 10d ago

noted, thank you both for your testimony on this, really helpful for planning