- Joined
- Sep 1, 2019
GPUs & CPUs & Enthusiast hardware: Questions, Discussion and fanboy slap-fights - Nvidia & AMD & Intel - Separe but Equal. Intel rides in the back of the bus.
- Thread starter Smaug's Smokey Hole
- Start date
-
🐕 I am attempting to get the site runnning as fast as possible. If you are experiencing slow page load times, please report it.
- Joined
- Sep 7, 2016
Ok. That will be very interesting to see actually, what if they made HW encoder that was decent? Their goal with the encoder probably hasn't changed, it's to crank out frames at a set interval for streaming, so I wouldn't get my hopes 200% up.
If you want to reduce size of video then close your eyes and let handbrake run it at CRF 22 and h264. What program are you using now?
- Joined
- Sep 1, 2019
i'm letting plex/emby transcode. I was doing 320p, 720p 1080p re-encodes for x264/x265, 2 pass at various bit rates to save space, but realized it's just easier to let the server transcode. was doing CPU transcodes, looked great but it did take a while for a remote play to get going ( that's with a ryzen 1700x) [could also be because plex was breaking the server with a year of poorly coded updates] , switched to a gpu and got instant transcodes with a little quality loss.
i know the pro plexer thing is to get quadro card or install custom firmware to allow for 10 streams.
- Joined
- Sep 7, 2016
You could use video editing software for it's not intended purpose and transcode with a combined normal h264/h265 enconding, CUDA and HVENC.
XMediaRecode is a suggestion, it seems to leverage the CPU for some things the GPU's fixed function transcoder can't do. It's not as fast as feeding it through the GPU encoder but it's way faster than pure CPU. One good thing is that it's got a preview window so you can click on the timeline and look at a specific part of a movie, then play it and see how it will look when transcoded with the current settings. It's neat, free and the GUI is made by the mentally disabled, good for them!
- Joined
- Sep 1, 2019
Is that going to tie into a headless plex/emby server? i want to do as little work as possible - which is happening now. if i was going to be more hands on, i'd go back to handbrake and manually reencode all the videos into various resolutions. If the new cards offer way better h264/h265 hardware, it'd be worth an upgrade. 1080>2080 was a shit upgrade.
- Joined
- Jan 8, 2019
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2015
im thinking some time in the near future i should get a 1650s to replace my 750ti. unless nvidia comes out with a gtx 1750 or rtx 2050 of course
- Joined
- Jul 19, 2017
Resolution really is the only thing driving new GPUs these days. My vega 64 can still handle 1440p fine for 60 FPS gaming, more then that is honestly a total meme, and I'm debating going back to my 1920x1200 monitor.
I'm much more interested in what AMD is bringing with rDNA 2. I wont upgrade unless someone can provide at least 50% more performance then my vega 64 for the price I paid for vega ($250). Otherwise I'll stick with vega for another year or two, I certainly dont play newer games too often anymore.
Honestly if I knew new games would be this shit I'd have stuck to my 3570K and saved all that cash.
- Joined
- Dec 16, 2019
Better off getting a 1660 ti or 1660 Super.
The 970 is still great if you game at 1080p and aren't aiming for ultra settings. Only reason I upgraded from it to a 20 series card is Cyberpunk and Doom Eternal. Playing Kingdom Come on high settings is pretty nice, too.
- Joined
- Jul 19, 2017
If you're upgrading right now go for a 1660 super. The Ti is a whopping 4% faster 99% of the time and is in no way worth the price.
OTOH, if you are OK buying used, the vega 56 can be had for $180, and outpaces the 1660 quite well. That's how I've bought all my GPUs, because honestly screw paying the price of new hardware.
Really the only parts I buy new are the PSU and motherboard, everything else I usually buy used to save some cash.
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2015
both are a bit out of my price range and the only reason im not going after a card of similar performance like an rx 580 or something is because of my 450w power supply
gd7
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Sep 5, 2020
What are your other components? 450w should be fine for an RX 580.
- Joined
- Jul 19, 2017
450W, as long as it is a quality unit, will handle a 580 fine. They only pull about ~150 at full tilt.
What PSU do you have?
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2015
2200g i got for 60 bucks (i plan on upgrading to a 3100 eventually) and 8gb of ram
the EVGA 450 BR
gd7
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Sep 5, 2020
- Joined
- Sep 7, 2016
If you want to feel perfectly safe and save a couple of bucks go with the RX 480, it's cheaper. The RX 580 is just the 480 with a 10% higher core clock making it 5-10% faster at the expense of using 20% more power.
Hardware Unboxed had a video not long ago looking at how the 580 and GTX 1060 performs against each other today, along with some 480 benchmarks. It's neat to see how much drivers have improved and made the 580 outperform the 1060 by a significant margin.
- Joined
- Jul 19, 2017
That supply can push all 450W over 12v. Being 80+ bronze I wouldnt recommend pushing ALL that, but a 2200g/3100/3300X and a 580 would not be an issue, heck you could easily run a 3600 and a 580. I'll double what smaug said, if the 480 is cheaper get one of those, they are the same GPU with a clock speed difference. IF you can find one, the XFX 480 GTR BLACK is an amazing 480, pulls less power at load then stock while running 100 MHz faster. I have one, its a great card.
If you are going to get a dGPU, you may want to look at the ryzen 4000g APUs for a CPU, may be a lower price for what you want. The current 3200g (built on zen+) is $30 cheaper then a 3100, and logic dictates the 4200G will basically be a 3100 with a iGPU built in likely for under $100 brand new.
Side note: WTF is going on with processor pricing? Everything jumped up to 2019 pricing all of a sudden and stock is running out everywhere. Is there another bottleneck I'm unaware of? GPUs are shooting up in price, which is bizzare given the imminent RTX 3000 launch.
- Joined
- Dec 16, 2016
- Joined
- Sep 7, 2016
- Joined
- Jan 31, 2018
i'd be pretty stunned if nshitia actually crammed 8 gigs of vram into the 3060 and not the SUPER refresh in 2021 or whatever the fuck. i'm certain that they, along with amd, suddenly realized how important vram was going to become over the next few years, so after dropping midrange 8gb cards like the 480/580 and the 1070, suddenly the 1660 series and the non-super 2060 and the 5600 xt only have 6 gigs of vram. it's a textbook example of planned obsolescence - plus, lowering the memory bandwidth and amount of vram is a great way to persuade normies into spending $150 more on better hardware they don't necessarily need
you know they're bullshitting people when they spew half-truths like "10gb is enough for 4k!" while simultaneously preparing a version of the 3080 with extra vram
then again they surprised me in the same q&a by promising that the rtx 30 series would apparently support windows 7, so..