2024-09-30, 05:46 AM
(This post was last modified: 2024-09-30, 05:47 AM by Efficient_Good_5784. Edited 1 time in total.)
I would go with the 8th gen Intel CPU because it has support for hardware accelerating HEVC 10bit video (while the 6th gen does not).
Without knowing the exact CPUs being used in both machines, I'm going to say that both will be equally as good for what Jellyfin needs to do.
The exception being transcoding in certain cases.
To explain, transcoding is the process of converting a video from one format to another. This needs to be done because a client device may not be able to read a video due to the video being in an incompatible format for the client.
The Jellyfin server will use either the CPU (slower) or the GPU (faster) to accomplish the transcode.
In the case of transcoding with an Intel CPU, we're talking about using their iGPU unit (built into the CPU) to use QSV (Intel's Quick Sync Video).
You can see what codecs each generation of their CPUs can handle here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quic...d_encoding
Whatever media you get for Jellyfin, it will have a certain codec. Currently the most popular video codecs are H264 and HEVC (8-bit & 10-bit).
Depending on what your media is composed of, the difference between the 6th & 8th gen Intel CPUs may not matter, but if you have (or will ever have) any 10-bit HEVC video, it's probably a better choice to get the 8th gen CPU due to the iGPU being able to accelerate that codec.
Without knowing the exact CPUs being used in both machines, I'm going to say that both will be equally as good for what Jellyfin needs to do.
The exception being transcoding in certain cases.
To explain, transcoding is the process of converting a video from one format to another. This needs to be done because a client device may not be able to read a video due to the video being in an incompatible format for the client.
The Jellyfin server will use either the CPU (slower) or the GPU (faster) to accomplish the transcode.
In the case of transcoding with an Intel CPU, we're talking about using their iGPU unit (built into the CPU) to use QSV (Intel's Quick Sync Video).
You can see what codecs each generation of their CPUs can handle here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quic...d_encoding
Whatever media you get for Jellyfin, it will have a certain codec. Currently the most popular video codecs are H264 and HEVC (8-bit & 10-bit).
Depending on what your media is composed of, the difference between the 6th & 8th gen Intel CPUs may not matter, but if you have (or will ever have) any 10-bit HEVC video, it's probably a better choice to get the 8th gen CPU due to the iGPU being able to accelerate that codec.