I am currently using GeForce 730 and the drivers only go up to like 391.35 or something for this card. Since the last few updates HW transcoding hasn’t been working and i see the note stating Firmware needs to be v418.30 or higher. Is there a work around for this or do i need to buy a new GPU? And if i need to buy a new GPU what is recommended.
I don’t know of any work around, but what gpu depends on what you are wanting to accomplish with it.
Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix | NVIDIA Developer
You could probably find a cheap used gtx 960 that would be a decent upgrade.
Or if you want to future proof a bit, new gtx 1650/1660’s are fairly reasonable.
I have a 1650 and works great for me.
Fantastic thank you for your quick response. I have no problem buying something for the future. I just wasn’t sure which one to get.
I have a lot of family that likes to use plex and not all of them can direct stream so i needs something that can handle all styles of transcoding including 4k.
is your pms on windows or linux?
if linux and you want to do 4k now or in the future, I would recommend you look for a video card with the most video ram, that is within your budget.
on linux, video ram is the bottleneck for 4k transcodes (about ~1.4gb per 4k transcode).
if you are on windows, I believe that it handles video ram differently, so not as much of a problem.
Either way, if you are, or are wanting to get into 4k, I would suggest you read the entire thread @ Plex, 4k, transcoding, and you
Im running a windows box. before the update Plex Media Server 1.17.0.1709 i had no issues with older card doing anything i wanted including 4k. but now there is the firmware issue so now back to get a new GPU. Thanks again for your help.
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