Ryzen 9 + P2000 or what? Need your inputs

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I have given up using a NAS (synology) for transcoding. My plan is to build a dedicated pc for transcoding as well as playing games. I have not had a pc for many years and I was using a laptop all these times. I don’t mind spending a bit more because I MUST have transcoding to work with this new pc that I want to build. People on YouTube said p2000 will get the job done, is it still the case since we are entering 2020?
Is p2000 an old card?

All of my videos in the NAS are 4k remux hevc h.265 and i do have remux h.264. Remux collection or else. I will not settle for converted or compressed videos. Should I put the money on Ryzen 9 3900x and let the cpu do brute force software transcoding or go with nivida’s p2000 and do hardware transcoding?

Can p2000 be used for gaming since this card is really for business/enterprise? But i really want a pc that can handle both transcoding and gaming.

If I were to go with a different nivida card purely for gaming, i think there is a way to remove the 2 transcode limit, is that true?

I don’t know what to do.

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Quadro cards are overrated imo. Any GTX and RTX card that supports NVENC can be unlocked to go beyond the 2 transcoding stream limit. You can get the equivalent GTX card to the P2000 at a lower cost and just unlock it. So, that’s what I would do if I was you. See here:

I have a Ryzen 7 2700x and a 1070Ti and love it, I use it for both my Main PC and my Plex Server and it never runs out of steam… a Ryzen 9 would be even better, though eventually, due to the type of work I do, I will be going up to a Threadripper.

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Thanks a lot this is really helpful. I did not know that nivida released patches to unlock the 2 transcode limit for windows (thought it was for linux). What about AMD on RTX? Any transcode limit? I will scrap the p2000 plan. Better to get either an rtx or gtx card.

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I don’t understand the question… But this Reddit thread may help you:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/8t2mk8/amd_gpu_transcodinghow_many_simultaneous_streams/

I dunno if I would recommend AMD though, their x264 encoder is garbage (their 265 is better from what I hear). Something about their implementation is just trash… You can look up a lot of complaints about it, especially for Video Game streamers… Picture quality is way worse than Nvidia’s

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Sorry i was referring to amd rx cards. I will stick with Nivida, thanks

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