How to benchmark VPS for Jellyfin

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You could get HWA out of a VPS that supports VA-API or QSV, which includes a broad range of Intel chips as well as any Arc card you want to throw at it. For CPU encodes, you're only looking at a few simultaneous encodes even in the newest generation unless you go with top of the line or tons of cycles. That's a big portion of the reason why HWA exists for real-time transcoding. CPU presents a major bottleneck for simulatneous transcodes and, in my experience, you get diminishing returns (i.e., the relationship between pegging all cores at a certain multiplier and adding an additional encode is NOT linear).