State of Ryzen iGPU for transcoding

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My PMS (latest stable) is based upon win10 enterprise IoT and runs on a ryzen 5 7600 (non-x variant). all software is latest officially release (re: non-beta).

there doesn’t seem to be as much emphasis for transcoding support placed upon the amd platform as compared to intel and nvidia… why is this? seems like everyone is really chomping at the bit to use amd.

i can’t tell if mine is working or not. plex says hw trascoding is occuring for remote streams as it should, but the gpu meter in the windows taskmanager doesn’t show any activity.

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I can get my ancient RX580X to hardware transcode and the gpu meter shows the same.

However, it isn’t that efficient and I prefer to push it to software transcoding on my equally ancient 2700X.

My remote streaming is rather humble (mostly 1080p direct stream and handful of clients) however, which the CPU handles without any effort.

When it does transcode, also next to no CPU impact with multiple transcodes (mostly transcoding due to client requirements or subs or audio).

Migrate to a non-AMD GPU if your needs are greater IMO.

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well, the point of all this is i’m not the only person using AMD as their cpu for pms… if amd has become so prevalent (which it has) and people on this forum are requesting its support (which they have been for a few years now), why are the requests being ignored? if people are asking for hw support, it’s because they’ve paid for it… maybe i’m wrong and amd is fully supported for transcoding and either 1) windows taskmgr just doesn’t show it properly or 2) amd’s iGPU is good to the point where it just doesn’t register in the taskmgr… i just see people asking questions and it seemingly gets overlooked or ignored.

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Agree and there is a massive thread on the topic that has been running for years.

Separating iGPU, CPU and GPU ofcourse although the bleed over is there.

I’d suggest you ask the same question on the AMD forum. NVidia (with Intel) just does it better.

Again, I agree with you. I’m just saying it isn’t going anywhere really.

I’m just happy that I went AMD for my CPU because of it’s 8 core/ 16 thread architecture. Does well for its age (5 years old) with software transcoding.