I’m considering a video card upgrade since I’ve got a non Intel Quick Sync CPU (Skylake) which isn’t the greatest for hardware acceleration. Main things I need to support are decoding/encoding for cutting commercials out of tv shows with Comskip. And, some transcoding. I’d like to future proof for 4k transcoding even though current 4k transcoding strips the HDR. Would an RTX 2070 be sufficient or overkill? Or do I actually need a Quadro?
I would sugest you take a look here before doing anything.
To be fair, it dosen’t answer your question, but there is some problems with GPU transcoding of 4K movies.
My advice would be to waite if you don’t need it right now, so the problem can be fixed.
Can’t say that I’m surprised unfortunately. Understand that this will be an issue for awhile I’m sure, but any recommendations regardless? I won’t be transcoding much anyways for awhile since 4k transcoding drops the HDR. But a better video card for the encoding/decoding as well as future proofing would be nice. Got the computer under repair at the moment anyways so it’s a good time for an upgrade.
Hmm, I am pretty sure that comskip does not use any hardware decoding/encoding, so GPU will be zero help here.
as far as gpu goes, I would recommend getting the card with the most vram you can afford. (vram is what limits the number of 4k transcodes, well along with CPU power that does the audio/subtitles processing).
see also @ nVidia Hardware Transcoding Calculator for Plex Estimates
Well, if that’s the case then I’m good with my current GTX 970. 
I thought the donator version of Comskip allowed hardware transcoding as an option though.
Either way, appreciate the nVidia transcoding calculator link.
Hmm, you may be right about comskip;
https://www.google.com/search?q=comskip+hardware+acceleration
but looks like there are other complicating factors.
A good question for the Comskip forum.
The Comskip INI hardware acceleration is only used for decoding and only under specific conditions.
also, even if comskip itself supports, I don’t think plex utilizes that functionality (that I can tell).
Yea, probably best to just stick with my GTX 970. Thanks for your help!
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