# Ability to select GPU for Harware Transcoding **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [December 3, 2017, 3:11am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/ability-to-select-gpu-for-harware-transcoding/216261 "2017-12-03T03:11:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sangokudbz79](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sangokudbz79](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sangokudbz79)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 3:11am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/ability-to-select-gpu-for-harware-transcoding/216261/1 "2017-12-03T03:11:33Z")
Hi, Can you please consider adding the ability to select GPU for Harware Transcoding. It would be a lot simpler in multi-gpu systems. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 2:44am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/ability-to-select-gpu-for-harware-transcoding/216261/2 "2021-03-21T02:44:02Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate > [@GPU utilization drop down](https://forums.plex.tv/t/gpu-utilization-drop-down/463825): > > Any chance there could be a GPU selection option for plex in the transcoding section for HW transcoding? Currently I have 2 gpu’s an RTX 2070 and p2000. Looks like the new beta release only uses the RTX card, whereas the prior versions used whatever card was assigned as the primary display. I would rather not setup a VM with pci passthrough to the p2000 to get this to work, my only other option would be to build another PC which isnt in my budget right now. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/ability-to-select-gpu-for-harware-transcoding/216261/3 "2021-06-10T00:43:09Z")