# HW on AMD

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/hw-on-amd/352766>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [December 26, 2018, 8:18am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hw-on-amd/352766 "2018-12-26T08:18:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![high\_aol\_com](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@high\_aol\_com](https://forums.plex.tv/u/high_aol_com)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 8:18am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hw-on-amd/352766/1 "2018-12-26T08:18:32Z")

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It would be great if you would enable hardware acceleration on AMD hardware. I do not understand why I should be forced to buy an Intel CPU to get my NVIDIA or ATI graphics card to do the job… .

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hw-on-amd/352766/2 "2018-12-28T11:54:08Z")

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A request for the same feature exists already, and it has more votes.

> [@\[Feature Request\] Add support for AMD's Video Core Next encoding](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-add-support-for-amds-video-core-next-encoding/226861/1):
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> Right now the main way to run a plex server is with an Intel CPU that support Quicksync. This results in the best performance and especially price/performance ratio. It would be very nice if plex also supported AMD’s processors with built in graphics for transcoding. As an example, here is the performance capability of the Ryzen5 2400G processor: [image] That is about seven 1080p movies it could encode when used as a plex server cpu, or two 4k movies too. Quite a lot for a [little $170 processo…](https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113480 "little $170 processor")

Therefore this one is closed.  
Votes are given back to the users who voted on this request. Please think of re-voting in the other thread if you still want it.

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hw-on-amd/352766/3 "2018-12-28T11:54:12Z")

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