AMD APU for Jellyfin?

[TheDreadPirate]

I would definitely call myself an AMD fanboy.  My DESKTOP is all AMD.

But Intel Quick Sync is the gold standard for hardware accelerated encoding.  If you don't want to "give Intel your money" (totally understandable), you could get an AMD CPU (not a G model) and a used Intel Arc GPU.

Having said that, AMD RX6000 and newer dedicated GPUs have pretty good encoders.  I get satisfactory results when I've tested with the RX6800 in my desktop.

But it's not as good as Intel.  Both their dGPUs and iGPUs have better encoding support and quality than AMD.  You also have to be more careful which AMD dGPU you get.  All their models have decoders, but not all of them have encoders.