I’ve got Plex server running on my Ryzen 2200g B450 system, and I’ve read that the 3400g does work for 4k transcoding w/ it’s Vega 11 iGPU, but I have the opportunity to pick up the 5600g here in Canada for a decent price and can upgrade pretty seemlessly.
The 5600g runs Vega 7 at a higher clock rate - does anyone have any experience or idea of whether it will work doing transcoding?
I’d love to get my hands on a p2000 or p400 but they are hard to come by for a reasonable price in my area.
I upgraded my Plex Media Server from an AMD CPU (65w 3xxxx) and dGPU to the new AMD Ryzen 7 5700G (not the 5600G) and it’s working great – however:
I am hesitant to use the GPU to transcode my video because the software (CPU) transcoding is working really well and has been able to handle 4 transcodes at once with both x265 and x264 content.
If my APU ever starts to run my CPU beyond 50% for Plex trasncodes, I will likely switch to the hardware GPU based transcoding — OR I might switch to hardware transcode if anyone can give a side by side comparison of current Intel, NVidia and AMD solutions.
I hope that gives you some insight. Since I don’t have constant communication with some of my friends and family who stream, I’m erroring on the side of cation so that my libraries look as good as possible when streamed – and software transcodes (with Make my CPU hurt) should provide better quality than hardware transcodes.
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