# Hardware Accelerated Decode (Nvidia) for Linux

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**Created:** [April 23, 2018, 10:09am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-accelerated-decode-nvidia-for-linux/233510 "2018-04-23T10:09:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-accelerated-decode-nvidia-for-linux/233510/267 "2019-02-20T17:56:01Z")

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btw for those considering a p400, I have found in my experiments that it may not have enough video ram to support more than 1 4k decode.

p400 has ~2gig ram, per above and from my own testing, 4k decode (currently) uses over a gig, so 2ndary 4k decodes fall back to cpu decode.

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