Whats the best GPU for Plex? In this video I compare 3 GPUs along with a CPU to see what the best option is and what the different quirks and issues are with these GPUs on different OSs with different media.
Hopefully this video was interesting to you. Let me know if there are other Plex or other transcoding tests to run.
Here is a link to a Google sheet with all the raw data. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/119qy-jB2i-uemAeYpNVQ7Lh0qBOTNRXzEHmtXKEMvPM/edit?usp=sharing. Most of the other tests like FFmpeg encoding were done quickly as they didn't seem to correlate well to max plex streams that can be converted at once.
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00:00 Intro
00:52 GPUs I'm comparing
04:18 Testing methodology
06:50 Results
12:34 Other differences between GPUs
13:42 My recommendations
15:52 Conclusion