I seriously considered AMD as well, but after so much general advice about Intel being the best chip for the job I purchased an i7-10700 because I could not find a Xeon W series LGA1200 socket chip. I eventually found the W-1290P and snagged it up. It was a risk due to being a Tray chip not a boxed version, but I have always had fantastic luck with Xeon. Typically the newer Xeon line is out of reach of home server due to cost, but the W series is affordable, if not entirely overkill for Plex only servers. I will use mine for other purposes in conjunction with Plex so I could justify the price tag. It is a 10 core 20 thread chip with a turbo boost of 5.3Ghz and only 80 watts. I am pretty sure AMD would have been less expensive as the Xeon W-1290P is $600.00+ but it has P630 grapichs built in. I get to use Unbuffered ECC RAM too, granted AMD natively supports ECC with out paying a premium for doing so. In the end, I feel that AMD would have been less expensive and work just as good, especially considering I put in an RTX 2070 anyway. The biggest issue I am running into is getting the Gigabyte W480 board to boot to Unraid. If I did it over, I think AMD would be the route I would go.
Sounds like a powerhouse build! Congrats on the new server and the good find on that CPU. Iām doing PLEX and Linux RAID in Ubuntu. And basically nothing else. I ended up going with an AMD 3700x, a fanles Nvidia 1030, and a B450 Tomahawk board with 16GB of men. My only slight regret is that the board doesnāt support ECC. I considered going ECC anyway since the controller is on the CPU and maybe it would be ok. Just didnāt want to gamble on it.
The GPU is just for a sometimes GUI on the OS. Just doing software encoding, but that is great for my needs.
Hello,
I have built a Win 10 Homeserver with a 3400G APU and 32 GB RAM, NVME system disk and two 14 TB WD nas drives. I have used an i7-7700T with QSV transcoding before. If I compare the transcoding performance of these two systems, I cannot observe a lower performance with the 3400G.
So I would say: It IS possible using a Ryzen APU for a PLEX server. If Plex would support VCE it would be even better.
Best regards
Thomas
Hi, is there any update on this? Currently hardware transcoding does function on AMD gpuās, but there are issues with h265 10bit main (visual artefacts).
Thanks
When Engineering has a formal release, it will be in the PMS release announcements.
Given something as significant as AMD MESA support, I would expect a Forum Preview / Beta to be conducted. Such a preview would have a banner to announce itself.
Iāve recently built an unRAID NAS with a Ryzen PRO 4750G APU on a B550 board. While transcoding support in Linux with Ryzen APUās is my #1 request for Plex, the 4750G CPU is still fairly capable in its transcoding for smaller servers using CPU only.
I am able to transcode 3x 1080p HEVC Main10 videos /w 7.1 AAC (avg bitrate ~10mbps) at once --> 1080p H264 /w AAC Stereoā¦ Tautulli list speed for a single stream @ around 6x so perhaps it is capable of a bit more.
To address your question about 4k transcoding, the closest video Iāve got in my library to test with is 22Mbps 4k HEVC Main10. I can achieve transcoding to 1080P H264 /w speed at 2.8xā¦ This is obviously fairly taxing on the CPU since the iGPU is not used at all.
Getting Plex support for AMD MESA GPU transcoding in Linux would really be lovely.
Maybe you can make some compromise with windows, I am using windows 10 and 2400g. It can use hw transcoding and its able to make 2 simultaneous transcodes of 4k to 1080p or something else. Problem is that is limit on 2400g, while doing that only direct streams are working and no HDR tone mapping, that is going directly to CPU in which case is unable to do anything else. I have ordered now 3600xt for server but having second thought now on 4650g. My doubt was if its same transcoder as in 2400g it want do much betterā¦
If you try windows 10 with that configuration please post results, I would really like to know if I made mistake. Just put realistic one, not that bs of millions of transcodes. I have tried intel and it works much worse, it was older core i5 6400 but stillā¦
P.S. Another observation, hw transcoding works only when I am connected to remote machine via RDP, otherwise CPU only. Trying to find reason.
Reason found. When you enable and use RDP windows create RDP GPU driver and its unable to use it for GPU transcoding so Plex want use it. Can somebody tell me if there is a way to manually switch GPU for transcoding in plex? I override it with removing RDP and now using TW for connections. So far so good.
P.S. So it works with 2 streams 4k HDR to something else without HDR tone mapping enabled - CPU is 35-40%
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