Quadro P2000 hardware Transcoding in plex

Testing and benchmarking Plex Hardware Transcoding with the P2000! 23 Transcodes simultaneously.

Nvidia Max # of Encode and decode GPU support link:

Plex document showing 2k passmark per transcode:

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[soundfire]

Picked up a Quadro K2200 on ebay for $40. Almost all the load was taken off the old AMD APU (A8-3870K) and was able to get 9 1080p h.264, 22Mbs -> 10Mbs transcoded streams when I ran out of clients. The K2200 was running at about 90% and the CPU was bouncing to 100% because of the AC3 -> AAC audio transcoding on every stream. I bought the K2200 because of this video and it works great. Could not get HW transcoding to work in any browser and had to use a mix of Android, Roku, iPad and Windows 10 Plex clients. Thanks and keep em coming!

[javinpaoli]

I'm surprised that this was your first video! It's put together very well.

I just found out about Plex yesterday and how versatile it really is. I like the idea of being able to manage your own content. Not only for TV or Movies, but even Camera Upload and Music.

Will definitely be subbing as I go into sponge mode and absorb as much as I can about plex/media servers/etc. lol Cheers!

[HugoAguilera]

Dude, thank you so much for a great video! I've been using PLEX for years, but I've never had a need to have more than 1 stream going at a time, since the only place we watch our PLEX content is our living room TV. Thanks again!

[ShintaSaINt]

Beautiful work man, I love your methodology for testing! Keep up the good work, best Regards Shane (Trinidad)

[melbuilt]

You sir remind me of Donald Sunderland. I have never seen two people that speak English more clear that you and him. Thanks for the great videos.

[darkcom]

Wow! At last!!!! A comprehensive and well thought out analysis! Thank you for putting this together! You've earned a new follower.

[-ColorMehJewish-]

That was hands-down, the best fn description i have found while looking for information about this card (compared to others) and how it functions in a real use-case for Plex.

Thank you. I wish I found this sooner.. before I picked up a K2000 :/ Oh well. Good for a workstation I guess

[Bill-ions]

Great video. I have been struggling with using my synology NAS as a plex server for way too long. This may be an answer to my prayers. Would love to see a build video with this GPU installed!

[lucasgautier]

Extremely fantastic video sir! This was really handy in figuring out the value-prop of a Quatro card. There are hacks to remove the limit on the consumer cards, but it is probably worth it to get a Quatro. GTX wasn't designed for 24/7 use and Quatro is more power efficient.

[MinuteTechReview]

Thank you for the video! I actually just changed out my P2000 for the GTX 1070 and modified the transcode limit. With the 1070 I'm noticing about a 20% to 35% performance increase for live TV streams. I think this is due to having the second and nvenc chip, although it doesn't help with decoding it takes some of the stress off the card for encoding.

[Actionjack]

I'm sold! Purchased the card on ebay this week. Thanks!

[toptruck]

Great video, great testing. I just ordered a P2000 today. tks to you, I got a better understanding of transcoding.

[millergamingdk]

i would love to see these tests again on same setups, but with normal GTX's but with the Limit unlock hack, and see how many streams you can get from your GTX 980ti and others

[pietroantonelli]

Love your methodology and you're thinking I was wondering if you have ever thought about putting up a video for everybody that wouldn't need so much like a small family three or four remote transcodes like maybe use in a p620 or a k... I truly think that would be a fascinating video but the videos you put up in whole are fantastic

[plexnbrown]

Thank you sir for your wealth of knowledge. I’m planning on replacing my fx-8350 plex server soon and free dell parts on hand and a quadro p2000.

[Hobbles_]

Fantastic video! This specifically covered a number of questions I had regarding hardware transcoding. I do have a suggestion for a potential followup regarding the quality debate. SSIM and VMAF methods provide quantitative video quality values to compare video quality based on a source file and the different encodes. Were you to encode videos using the same settings as PLEX for both HW on and off, we could see how they compared to the source so that we could say definitively whether or not people should go for hardware transcoding!


Either way, hope you have a fantastic day!

[knipster]

Looking forward to the next video. Curious to hear how you think about upfront vs ongoing costs when putting together a server. Perhaps you'd also comment on what capacity thresholds should drive server sizing or the shift to hardware transcoding.

[Moorestx]

super informative video thank you so much!

[HenrikCaspersen]

What a great video! You covered all the subjects I have been looking for. Building a new Plex server and was looking for i9 and 12 cores, but this looks like a much better option, one Question what OS are you using Windows? would this work on Linux? (Would like to create a VM for Plex using Linux/CentOS-7 but unsure if this HW transcoding would work?)

[johntanner]

Love your Plex videos, would you mind doing an updated version of these videos for 2023-2024? I am taking a similar journey to what you had with your plex boxes, but I never did use external drives. First I started just using my gaming rig for plex, but then I moved to a Dell R720 with dual E5-2667-v2 CPUs and 192 gigs of ram. It has been running okay, but if I wanna give more access to my friends in plex it cannot handel it. I do have a small GTX 745 that can help with transcodes, but now I am building an EYPC 7601 box for plex. I need to decide what GPU to add to it for more transcodes, and I know the P2000 is still somewhat relevant, but older at this point. Keep up the great plex videos!