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which video card for plex?

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getting my new plex box up and running. will post full specs once complete in a week.

next up is video.
I had an Nvidia Quadro P1000 and it ran just fine. Multiple people connect and no issues at all.
I have added a P1000 to my current newer machine and it seems like it is ok and googling it says T1000 over P1000...

Preliminary tests on my new rig was that i had 2 remote users connected to live tv and first guy was at 12mb, 2nd guy connected at 19mb but then had to lower as he said it was queueing up... had to go to 8mb... on T1000.
From what i recall with the P1000, I had both of them streaming at 21mb without issues.

here are my choices:
Quadro P1000
Quadro T1000
RTX 470
RTX 1060
RTX 2070

We are talking 4 simultaneous streams max...
thoughts on best, makes sense, video card to run?
 
Vashypooh said:
If you are spending money, get an igpu intel for quicksync. It is the most cost effective, performant way to accomplish what you are after. Even a N100 would meet the requirements listed above.
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Not paying... Above in hand....
 
Between them all, Quadro P1000 would be my pick. Because it's a Quadro you don't have to do any driver patching to remove NVENC stream limits. It's also the second newest of the batch (only beaten by the RTX2070). I'd rather throw the RTX2070 into something that would be used for gaming.

Also, despite the T1000 being newer than the P1000, it actually has an older NVENC generation. T1000 is on 5th gen but P1000 is on 6th gen. My guess is this is the source of the performance gap you are experiencing.
 
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visionviper said:
Between them all, Quadro P1000 would be my pick. Because it's a Quadro you don't have to do any driver patching to remove NVENC stream limits. It's also the second newest of the batch (only beaten by the RTX2070). I'd rather throw the RTX2070 into something that would be used for gaming.

Also, despite the T1000 being newer than the P1000, it actually has an older NVENC generation. T1000 is on 5th gen but P1000 is on 6th gen. My guess is this is the source of the performance gap you are experiencing.
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Actually, you got the encoder wrong on the P1000. The T1000’s encoder is actually a stopgap between the P1000’s encoder (which is actually an 4th-gen encoder versus the T1000’s 5th-gen encoder) and the Quadro RTX-series encoder (which is a 6th-gen encoder that is also found in the RTX 2070). The P1000 and the GTX 1060 both have the same 4th-gen NVENC encoder while the GTX 470, being a Fermi GPU, does not support NVENC at all.

Thus, of all the choices the T1000 is therefore my pick as it will continue to be supported with driver updates without consuming as much power as the RTX 2070, while the P1000 and GTX 1060 are about to transition to a security-update-only schedule. The GTX 470 is already long obsolete.
 
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I have a thick laptop with a T1000 in it. And the encoding quality is as good as Turing/RTX 20 series. You would be hard pressed to tell a difference. Especially the H.265 quality.
 
Yeah. It's cheap to get a new Intel A380 or B580 and get all the support that you need (especially since you can sell these cards that you have that have some value and are overall inefficient for the task). It is worth testing out what you have and seeing how it works for you, though - so do that and then spend a couple hondo if needed.
 
T1000 is a bit low on memory. If you have 4K content, you might run into a memory limit. The 2070 is the better card. I subscribe to the 1.2gig mem per stream logic.
I never heard of an RTX470, GTX470 sure but that's super old. If that's an RTX 4070, and you for sure don't need it for a gaming rig, sell it and get an RTX5050 or A380. Put some money in your pocket.

Not sure if my eyes deceive me, but I think the output quality is better with Nvidia (5th gen) than quicksync, no idea if ARC is the same. I went with the a4000 just to be sure I have AV1 decode in a single slot design. Not sure if this is still a thing, but subtitles force software mode. I have a ton of CPU (epyc 7573x) so what my hardware misses, software works fine.
https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new
 
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