I assume it’s not nvidia. Yet I have no idea how to differentiate between them and neither do I know what a good price is.

Let’s say I don’t want to think about what the video type is. I just want a smooth experience.

Edit: thank you guys!

  • Eager EagleEnglish
    6•2 months ago

    I’d look into AV1 decoding benchmarks, regardless of NVIDIA vs AMD, as I’ve been using NVIDIA on Jellyfin for a while with no issues.

    HEVC is not as relevant IMO, as it’s not available through browsers due to license restrictions (ffmpeg / mpv works fine), so I’d focus on AV1 capabilities, which is not available in many cards.

          • VikEnglish
            13•2 months ago

            AV1 decode is supported on the RTX 3000 series, encode + decode in the RTX 4000 series

            For Intel Arc, AV1 encode + decode support is present on all Arc Alchemist GPUs,

            For AMD, AV1 decode is on RX 6000 series, encode + decode on all RX 7000 series GPUs

            As someone else has recommended, a low end Intel Arc alchemist GPU is pretty great for stuff like Jellyfin, very low price to entry for gfx accelerated AV1 transcoding.

          • GravitywellEnglish
            4•2 months ago

            The nvidia 1650 can’t do AV1 but it can handle hevc just fine, I’m currently using a 1660 on mine and before that it was a 950. Unless you need more than 3 steams at a time you should be able to get it working.