# Use CPU and GPU for transcoding (parallel / fallback)

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/use-cpu-and-gpu-for-transcoding-parallel-fallback/633368>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [September 14, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/use-cpu-and-gpu-for-transcoding-parallel-fallback/633368 "2020-09-14T07:36:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![mgutt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mgutt/32/138042_2.png) [@mgutt](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mgutt)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/use-cpu-and-gpu-for-transcoding-parallel-fallback/633368/1 "2020-09-14T07:36:54Z")

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If I enable HW transcoding it uses the iGPU or dedicated GPU (whatever is primary) and never the CPU. Instead I like to have a setting where I’m able to:

1.) Select the primary transcoding GPU  
2.) Select fallback GPUs/CPUs and sort them in a list

Something like this:  
 ![Sort transcoding processor priority](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/8/2/82a1653e5c56fdae06f44e42fa51c1cfc3dbd662.png)

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/use-cpu-and-gpu-for-transcoding-parallel-fallback/633368/2 "2021-03-31T14:29:08Z")

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Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate

> [@Feature request: any method to load-balance transcoding between CPU and GPU](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-any-method-to-load-balance-transcoding-between-cpu-and-gpu/224375):
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> I’ve been using hardware transcoding for a while (QuickSync on a E3-1245v6). It works great when it works, but it’s proven very hard to figure out the performance limits on my system. I have at least one 4k 40Mbps HEVC movie that is simply too big for hardware transcoding. PlexPy shows its transcoding speed as ~0.7. Strangely, it didn’t seem to slow down other active H264 transcodes. Last night, my server had 5x H264 GPU transcodes (from various friends) active. PlexPy was showing speeds of 0.…

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/use-cpu-and-gpu-for-transcoding-parallel-fallback/633368/3 "2021-06-10T00:22:00Z")

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