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Not any other chip. None of the 9th gens. A lot (possibly all) of the 8th gens.

Seems like overkill for 1080p transcoding though.

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If I may reply at the personal level?

I don’t understand the need for the 9th gen personally.
The -8xxx CPU is not going to be consumed doing video .

The i5 itself will die out long before with everything else it’s doing such as audio and remuxing. If any subtitles come into play, hardware ASIC capability afforded by the -9xxx is a moot point.

I have both a -7700 and an -8509g. I can’t kill either of them processing video.

The biggest load I can place on them is all 6 players doing 2160p HEVC HDR 60+ Mbps -> 1080p SDR 20 Mbps.

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Yea, I just thought it was worth mentioning, as the chip will fit and the OP seems determined to max out the potential

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I personally believe

  1. it’s beyond the point of beneficial return
  2. It’s not worth voiding the warranty.

I deal with the QNAPs here.
If they dont offer a -9xxx for a model then there won’t be any firmware or runtime library support for it either.

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I agree with both points.
For this reason, I ended up buying a nas without an ASIC entirely.
After all, pretty much any CPU can transcode 1080p properly, but non can 4K (unless SDR)

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My thoughts about 2160p curation are really simple:

  1. If you can’t play it natively on anything – why have it ?
  2. If you have a NAS, and have both 2160p and 1080p devices, then keep both resolutions. Buy the disk space for it. Don’t be cheap. This isn’t a commodity hobby.

DirectPlay & DirectStream (audio only) are the way to go.

EDIT:

-OR- spend the money for the stronger players (Nvidia Shield Pro 2019 for one) which can DirectPlay 2160p and tonemap it to 1080p without blinking.

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Yea, same.
Ive just turned off transcoding and told people using my server to upgrade their clients. The ATV 4K does the same job

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Yes it does. The ATV 4K will do the same thing. I actually have both.
I find the Nvidia does better with audio into the Onkyo (passthrough). Apple does everything as LPCM output

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One more piece of info:

i5-9500 has the UHD 630 GPU/ASIC

Ref: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/134895/intel-core-i5-9500-processor-9m-cache-up-to-4-40-ghz.html

i5-8500 has the same UHD 630 GPU/ASIC

Ref: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/129939/intel-core-i5-8500-processor-9m-cache-up-to-4-10-ghz.html

There is no net gain from the GPU perspective except the ‘turbo’ speed is a little bit higher in the CPU portion.

If the CPU is running at that clock rate, it’s not a GPU problem – It’s a subtitle problem.

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Thanks guys…Several people on the QNAP forum, are putting in i9-9900 (not i5) chips. I am just gathering data as 1) my existing 673 (non intel based) sucks for PLEX and 2) Trying to ensure that I get some level of future proofing if I spend the $$ on a new box. Looks like QNAP will be coming out with this shortly with a XEON processor. Appreciate the help everyone!

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The ASIC breaks using that chip, even if the CPU works.

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If I’m reading this correctly, you are saying that transcoding a high bitrate 7.1 audio (DTS MA or Dolby TrueHD) to EAC3 or Stereo takes about 1500+ passmark?

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