Will Plex automaticly use my second GPU for Hardware Transcoding?

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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I have a Nvidia Geforce 980 Ti and a Nvidia Geforce 960.

Since the 960 supports HEVC (980 Ti doesn’t) will it automaticly use my 960 for the hardware transcoding?

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you don’t specify what OS, but generally plex will use whatever is considered the default display adapter by the OS.

as far as gracefully failing over to multiple gpu, this has been asked before and not sure if there has been much confirmation.

if you don’t want to wait, and/or no one else replies, you can do a plex pass for 1 month and try it yourself.

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I’m using Windows 10 Pro, and ofcourse I use my 980 Ti as my primary display :slight_smile:

We already have a Plex Pass, but I wouldn’t know how to test this, maybe you have any idea?

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if you have plex pass, its not showing as this same account you are using (it would show plex pass after your name, like mine).

to enable hardware transcoding, its Plex > settings > transcoder > use hardware acceleration

your server will need to be logged into whichever account does have the plex pass (and may need restarted if you just got plex pass)

on windows task manager you should easily be able to see both GPU and when hardware acceleration is used you will see the load increase on the applicable gpu.

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I don’t know my father’s password which is the owner of the Plex Pass :slight_smile:

We have the Plex Pass for a couple of months already. I added the Nvidia Geforce 960 yesterday.

I just need to download something that uses HEVC right now, so be patient, I will report back.

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It uses my 980 Ti, maybe plex should add a option to choose which videocard should be used…

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I tried this: Hardware Acceleration Multi-GPU but it doesn’t seem to work either…

EDIT: To come back at this, I don’t know what I’ve changed but it works now (maybe a reboot).

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You might be underestimating the capability of a GPU. A single $200 Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 (patched) can handle plenty of transcoding. The question is can the rest of the computer or network keep up. So since 1 not very high end older generation card can do ~20 transcodes, why use more than 1? Do you ever have that many transcodes when most local users are direct play/stream anyway?

Don’t forget to patch your nvidia driver so you can do more than 2 streams! Currently for Linux and Win10 only.

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