# 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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for reference on my windows desktop test plex server, 960gtx gm206 via windows task manager

4k/hdr/x265 decode + 1080p/x264 encode + truehd \> aac (cpu)  
20-30% gpu DEcode load  
less than 10% gpu ENcode load  
0.9/2.0GB vram load

idle gpu vram load = 0.6/2GB

so on in this case, the combined 4k decode/1080encode load is only using 0.3GB of vram.

that is hugely different than what I see on linux 4k decode (~1.1 to 1.5 GB vram/thread).

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