# Ability to select GPU for Harware Transcoding

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/ability-to-select-gpu-for-harware-transcoding/216261>\
**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")\
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**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")

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Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate

> [@GPU utilization drop down](https://forums.plex.tv/t/gpu-utilization-drop-down/463825):
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> 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.

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