Hi, I have an old Lenovo S20 workstation running Windows 10 and it has a Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 card. I was hoping this would work out of the box for GPU transcoding but it isn’t shown within Windows performance and Plex is also not using it.
I have updated to the latest official drivers from Nvidia but these are from 2016.
Any suggestions to get this working correctly or is it so old it needs throwing?
Thanks.
Too old. You need a card that supports NVENC/NVDEC, which was introduced in 2012 starting with Kepler based cards (Ref: Wikipedia). The Quadro FX 4800 is based on the Tesla architecture and was introduced in 2008 (Ref: TechPowerUp).
Look for a GTX 1050 or better. You want a card that decodes H.265 12-bit video and encodes to H.264. If you don’t have any H.265/HEVC video, then you can also use an older card.
Nvidia GTX and some Quadro cards are limited by Nvidia to two simultaneous transcodes. If you want no pre-defined limits, look for a Quadro P2000 or better.
Hacked drivers are available to bypass the limits on GTX cards. You can find references on other threads (I don’t have the link).
See Nvidia Encode/Decode Matrix for capabilities of specific cards.
Elpamsoft has information on the transcode performance of various Nvidia cards. Be sure and read the detailed notes below the graph with respect to memory and drivers.
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