# Adding which GPU to use for transcoding

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/adding-which-gpu-to-use-for-transcoding/822668>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [December 14, 2022, 2:13am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/adding-which-gpu-to-use-for-transcoding/822668 "2022-12-14T02:13:45Z")\
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**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:** [December 14, 2022, 8:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/adding-which-gpu-to-use-for-transcoding/822668/4 "2022-12-14T08:07:02Z")

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There’s actually already an existing suggestion thread discussing that option. I suggest you comment/vote in that thread in order to help us avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes (especially with topics that seem to struggle finding wide support in the community). In that Case I’ll close this message as a 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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