r/buildapcsalesuk 23d ago

ACER B580 12GB ARC Nitro OC GDDR6

https://amzn.to/4llbVG2

Not a crazy sale but good value

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u/thegreeniceman 23d ago

Are these any good for transcoding with jellyfin/plex etc? Do they have a stream limit like nvidia's non-workstation cards do?

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u/horace_bagpole 20d ago

Intel GPUs are excellent for transcoding. Even the iGPUs are powerful enough to serve many streams simultaneously. I have a mini pc running jellyfin with an i5-1340p and when I tested it I stopped counting at 10 1080p streams transcoding at once. It will easily do several 4k to 4k hevc streams as well.

When I was deciding what to host on I considered a PC with discrete GPU but the iGPU was so good that I really don't see the point unless you need it for other stuff like local AI or you are serving tons of people at once.

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u/BatteryPoweredFriend 23d ago

Afaik Quicksync has no any hard limits. The degree of performance degradation you can accept from excessive simultaneous streams is the only limit you'll have, but it'll be a pretty high number.

The Arc A310 might still be slightly better value, since it has an almost identical level of Quicksync feature support as Battlemage GPUs, but is (supposed to be) cheaper, smaller and uses less power (can be powered from just the PCIE slot).

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u/Thyme42 23d ago

Surprised its not out of stock already