# GPU selection for transcoding

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/gpu-selection-for-transcoding/837175>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [April 8, 2023, 6:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/gpu-selection-for-transcoding/837175 "2023-04-08T18:41:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![sovoltron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/sovoltron/32/302614_2.png) [@sovoltron](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sovoltron)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 6:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/gpu-selection-for-transcoding/837175/1 "2023-04-08T18:41:20Z")

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For people that have multiple gpus (igpu and GPU)

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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:** [April 8, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/gpu-selection-for-transcoding/837175/2 "2023-04-08T21:40:47Z")

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There’s already an existing feature suggestion discussing an option to pick a GPU if more than one are present. I suggest you comment/vote in that thread in order to help us avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes. Unless I’m missing some unique aspect of your suggestion I’ll close this thread 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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**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:** [April 10, 2023, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/gpu-selection-for-transcoding/837175/3 "2023-04-10T08:01:46Z")

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2023 clean-up: duplicate
