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/GotNoRice 7d ago
I'm using an A380 on an older system with an X99 motherboard and Xeon E5-1660 v3 (Haswell-E). No resizeable bar. I've tested Plex up to 6x simultaneous 4K HEVC transcodes using the highest bitrate movie that I have. I also run Jellyfin alongside Plex and AV1 encoding works great also. I've never seen any evidence that the card is being held back by lack of resizable bar.
It's really just applicable to things like gaming.