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Hardware acceleration (server). Better card = better performance? - pixel24 - 2023-08-31
Hi@all,
My Jellyfin is running in an Ubuntu server VM running on a proxmox. Since I only use nVIDIA graphics in my systems I would like to realize the hardware acceleration with nVIDIA as well. I want to rip my bluerays in H.264 or H.265. There I am still experimenting. To test the passing of the graphics card into the VM and to install the nVIDIA driver in the VM, I first installed an older Quadro P620. This should now be replaced by a more powerful card.
Does it bring advantages for the decoding of the films on the server if I install a card with more performance?
E.g. a Quadro RTX 4000 SFF ADA 20GB GDDR6 ? Or is there no advantage compared to a Quadro RTX 4000?
with best
pixel24
RE: Hardware acceleration (server). Better card = better performance? - Venson - 2023-08-31
Hey @pixel24
For jellyfin, scaling wide is better then scaling up with GPUs. That means a GPU that can handle more transcode streams in parallel with atleast the playback framerate (plus a bit extra) will be everything you need. Just because you GPU does transcode it faster, will not allow you to "watch faster". For Jellyfin its a bit more of a either it can do it or don't story. If your system works now just fine, you will not get any tangible benefits from upgrading your GPU.