Hardware for 4-5 4K and home lab

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Look at the iGPU series for each and see how it performs. This short section of the HWA documentation is a good place to start. You probably want to avoid the "entry level" with the spec you mentioned: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/admini...nd-quality.

"A little left over" depends on what you want to run. My i7-13700k is probably more power consumption than you're looking for but can serve 17 containerized services, run either software or hardware accelerated encoding processes, still be fully functional via SSH, serve Jellyfin and direct play or transcode as needed all simultaneously without ever giving me a warning about system load. With htop/bpytop I don't think I've ever seen 1m/5m go above a 5...I feel like I'm trying to give this thing a run for its money and I can't.