2024-06-08, 01:27 AM
(This post was last modified: 2024-06-08, 01:29 AM by Jellyfinit. Edited 1 time in total.)
So I was looking at charts for transcoding benchmarks for plex servers (it's my understanding it get the same results as jellyfin for NVENC performance) and I noticed that it's not really the stronger the video card the better, instead it's the more vram the better. Because of this the rtx 3060 12gb cards can handle 10 h.264 or 10 HEVC streams when transcoding 4k to 1080p, according to this page here: https://www.elpamsoft.com/?p=Plex-Hardware-Transcoding . I have a 1080 (non ti) and it can only handle 2 transcodes at 4k at the moment. (For those that don't know, with the latest drivers nvidia lifted the artificial limit on transcodes so hacked drivers are no longer required, that' s just the limit of the 1080.) Right now on amazon you can get a used RTX 3060 12GB card for $210 used here: https://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-REV2-0-W...28e6d374b3 . Making me wonder, because vram is king, is it possible to run two of these cards in SLI using NVlink to get 24gb of Vram to potentially have a 20 transcode limit? Does Jellyfin even support SLI? If it does you'll be hard pressed (I think) to get this kind of performance from any single video card for $420. If so I'll call it the 420 transcode king.(lol) If anyone has any experience with Jellyfin and SLI please give me your feed back on this.