What scenarios does a home server need a GPU? (alien.top)

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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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[-] Still-Snow-3743@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] jimheim@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

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.

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