I want to host security cameras and a plex server. Does this mean that my server needs a GPU? (Or would benefit from one). I heard plex does fine with just a CPU
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plex would benifit from using a gpu
If you want object detection with your ip cameras, you can use Frigate, and to have good performance, you can buy a Google Coral to perform the object detection part.
I have found transcoding to work noticeably better when using quicksync (the intel chip native encoder) rather than a GPU.
At this point, I think the only real reason you would want a GPU is for LLMs.
A decent, recent Nvidia GPU is going to beat most CPUs. I wouldn’t shell out extra for a GPU just for transcoding, though. Good enough is good enough.
Just about anything Machine Learning or AI, Transcoding for a media server, render farm for something like blender perhaps?
Get an Intel cpu with iGPU (most do) and you’ll be good to go for anything that you’re doing there.
My main server has a 3070 and I use it to stream games through moonlight to all my tvs and computers around the house. That way I get the most value from the card instead of it being locked into one machine
Plex will benefit with GPU and for security cameras you can have something like Frigate for object recognitions
Jellyfin transcoding.
There’s the possibility of self hosted speech recognition for use with Mycroft or other personal assistants. Saves you from having Amazon listen to your every word.
I use a p4000 to transcode Plex content. The GPU uses less power than maxing out my CPU. I also have the GPU available in Kasm though I’m unsure if that works as I mostly use kasm as a SSH jumpbox or access to an unfiltered Chrome session at work.
When I upgrade my CPU, I plan to put my spare 1650 in my host and spin up a windows gaming VM for guests and remote play.
I stream games from my server PC using steam-headless.
steam-headless That just gave me an idea to install Steam on cloud and play from local. Not sure about the performance though.
I added a cheap Quadro p400 to my Unraid server as the old girl (4790s) couldn’t handle h265 on the igpu.
Far cheaper and easier than a whole server upgrade just for a little more capability when transcoding.
Interested in the arc a380 just for transcoding when the kernel is updated to support the cards in Unraid natively when they eventually do but in no rush to do so.
If you run an AI server or crypto miner. Mostly
Consider any low power gpu for media hardware transcoding
Yes, GPU for transcoding is reason enough, but object detection using frigate, or AI stuff is nice also. Buy a nvidia.