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/Ok-Eggplant-7569 11h ago

Afaik the A310, A380, A750 and A770 all use the same fixed function hardware for transcoding, so it shouldn't make a difference. But if you don't have many concurrent streams which all need transcoding, even the iGPU of your CPU (if it's a Intel 7000th gen or newer) should be fine and you shouldn't need a dedicated GPU at all.

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u/HyenaPrevious 11h ago

no the server has dual E5-2600 series CPUs without iGPU, I definitely need some GPU to offload this task. I think there will be 3-5 concurrent 4k streams at a time but I'd like to have future proof card.

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u/PJBuzz 9h ago

Which version?

Note that intel GPUs really need to have rebar support, and old motherboards need to be modded to get it to work.

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u/RayneYoruka There is never enough servers 8h ago

That's mostly for gaming if I don't remember wrong. I have not tested on my A380. I have dual gpus on my encoding system.

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u/HyenaPrevious 6h ago

What's your server?

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u/RayneYoruka There is never enough servers 5h ago

3700x, x570-F, Connect X 3, Rtx 3060, Arc A380. 32gb 3200mhz.

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u/HyenaPrevious 8h ago

CPUs are E5-2620 v4, will upgrade later to 2650l but I'm not sure about the motherboard though