
For example Quadro K2200 4GB model can NVDEC FPS and NVENC FPS and fit a maximum 16 transcodes in its 4GB VRAM. VRAM Stream Card LoadĬard load is calculated from the smallest of the “NVENC FPS” and “NVDEC FPS” then divided by “Streams for VRAM” combined FPS to provide card. It looks like a 128Bit memory bus will not cause performance issues with multiple transcodes but will see Plex offline “Sync” jobs only able to use 30% of the NVDEC chip. The difference between the 128Bit, 192Bit and 256Bit Memory bandwidth needs further testing. A 256Bit GTX 970 4GB (Maxwell 2 nd Gen) can hit 100% NVDEC saturation (376FPS) with a single stream. Two streams hold about 50%, Three about 80% and more than four streams to reach 100% NVDEC saturation. Preliminary testing sees a single NVDEC job on a 128Bit GTX 1050 Ti 4GB (Pascal) unable to use more than 30% (112 FPS) of the NVDEC. *VDPAU nVidia PureVideo Information VRAM Bandwidth *NVENC FPS based on Single Pass quality profile. That figure is from PC partpicker.*h.264 FPS Based on YUV 4:2:0 8-bit. I’m not 100% sure what hardware I would need, so I’m looking for a bit of advice.

There should only be 1 person, the wife who may use her phone to access content from outside of the house, where transcoding may appear. That should not be a problem as the clients I have are 2x Nvidia shield (family and master) and 3x Firestick 4k, one in each of the kid’s bedrooms. These will not be running at the same time, but be able to handle, if that ever arises.įrom my understanding, plex will only transcode if the client can’t direct play, but I could be confused there. The server will also host around 3 VM’s (W10/Ubuntu/Kali).


In turn, the server will connect to my seedbox, where Sonarr / Radarr / rtorrent / Synching live and do their thing.

The server will host 10-15 dockers (Plex/emby/Tautulli/Ombi/Mariadb/Unifi/Shinobi/Grafana/Bitwarden/Openvpn/Nextcloud/HA). My budget is £1500-£2000, hopefully less. The server will be connected to my network at 10GB. The main purpose will be a media server for me and my family, along with household storage and other fun stuff. I’m looking to build an energy efficient home unraid server.
