# One Button GPU Transcoding Test

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/one-button-gpu-transcoding-test/867695>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [January 29, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/one-button-gpu-transcoding-test/867695 "2024-01-29T18:42:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![plex9000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@plex9000](https://forums.plex.tv/u/plex9000)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/one-button-gpu-transcoding-test/867695/1 "2024-01-29T18:42:54Z")

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I use Plex primarily on TrueNAS as an App. I can never easily tell if it is using a GPU for transcoding. It would be nice if there was a test in the settings of the server to just click a button have it try to run a simple GPU transcoding and report that, yes it works or no, it’s broken. Is there some easy way to test this that I’m not aware of?

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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:** [January 29, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/one-button-gpu-transcoding-test/867695/2 "2024-01-29T19:15:18Z")

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[https://support.plex.tv/articles/200871837-status-and-dashboard/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200871837-status-and-dashboard/)

will tell you if a currently running transcode is using hardware (for decoding and encoding separately)