Hi! While looking for an answer I stumbled upon this old reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/107e03d/gt_710_vs_ryzen_7_3700x/

I unfortunately do not know how to interpret the information provided by nyanmisaka there.

Does “GT 710 doesn’t support NVENC” mean that adding the older GPU wouldn’t do anything to provide a performance boost to the server? Or only for videos encoded in a specific way? I.e. is there any point in keeping my passively-cooled GT710 in my server or should I just ditch it?

  • Andi@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s too old to help with transcoding, I’m afraid, so probably won’t aid your server in any way.

    • splendoruranium@infosec.pubOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Well, shucks.

      What do you think would be the minimum entry-point to adding a GPU then? I’m reluctant to adding a full sized double/triple-fan current gen GPU to the server because I don’t want to increase its idle draw beyond reason.

      • Leafimo@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        easiest is just to get a newer intel i3 with iGPU.

        transcodes everything and is very fast at it as well with quicksync. and uses a low amount of power.

        • splendoruranium@infosec.pubOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          easiest is just to get a newer intel i3 with iGPU.

          transcodes everything and is very fast at it as well with quicksync. and uses a low amount of power.

          Thanks for the suggestion!
          I will keep it in mind but it’s not very practicable for me right now, unfortunately, as I’m not looking to replace my whole server setup, I was only looking for a possible upgrade path for the Jellyfin VM on my ESXi server via an empty pcie slot.