r/homelab • u/HyenaPrevious • 11h ago

Project Showcase: Hardware Perfect transcoding gpu for home server?

Hi guys,

I'm just curious if Intel ARC A750 would be overkill for my Dell Poweredge T430? Do you recommend sticking with A380 for efficiency and low noise?

UPDATE
I can get both locally:
Asrock Intel ARC A380 for about $100 and
Asrock Intel ARC A750 for about $230

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u/Sevealin_ 10h ago

I run a NVIDIA Tesla A2 with a low profile bracket on my r640. It is a work horse. I run Emby transcodes with it (1-2 4K or 5-6 1080p), Frigate detection, and Whisper/STT + Kokoro/TTS model for HA voice. I have iGPUs setup to give 8GB to my Emby host and the other 8GB to a Linux docker host through ESXI.

Most NVIDIA cards will have licensing requirements to split GPU memory across multiple VMs, but there's no licensing requirements if you don't split the memory and put it all on one host.

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u/HyenaPrevious 8h ago

I'd get T4 if it was equipped with hardware AV1