After years of growing my shed the time has come to simplify things throw out the old and in with the new.
I dont know anything about the in’s and outs of plex, i installed it, that was it, mapped a scp share so i could upload and thats it.
The old server had no GPU nada, just a 8 core processor and it did all i needed back then, now not so much.
Ive got a reasonable budget, ive also got on hand several GPU Options, what i wanna know is what is best for transcoding, at anyone one time i can expect a peek of 8 devices all wanting at least HD.
GPU’s on Hand
NVIDIA P2000’s x 2
NVIDIA P3000’s x 2
NVIDIA P4000’s x 2
NVIDIA 5000RTX x 1 (On hand but off limmits i have AI Plans for this)
If none are really a good choice i can spent upto about £500
Theres a tool for SDR to HDR Mapping from NVIDIA. You need to set windows to use 10 Bit RGB although doing so can disable some games. For the P4000 take the feature branch you get alot more options for things like that
Intel 8th gen or better CPU, with UHD 630 graphics (no F models).
Use Linux for best support for HDR to SDR tonemapping.
Avoid 11th & 12th gen, as Linux support is not fully baked.
If you need to burn subtitles, use a CPU with a high single core Passmark score, as subtitle burning is single threaded and uses the CPU.
I meant that Plex has no support for hdr → sdr with Nvidia when running on windows. It uses my CPU, which can’t hack it. I know the card itself supports it.
