Hello, I will be building me a dedicated video-encoding machine, that will do video encoding for few hours every day(for AVI to MP4 and MKV to MP4). I need the best bang for the buck here.
I have an old machine that I don't currently use - with Intel G4600 3Ghz dual-core CPU, 8G of RAM, no GPU. Can I get a cheap old GPU that will work good with NV-Enc for around $100-$200? Which GPU would you reccomend?
Also does the CPU matter when doing encoding with NVenc?
Budget encoding dedicated machine?
Re: Budget encoding dedicated machine?
Your G4600 actually supports Intel QuickSync Video. if you use the QuickSync Encoder chocies on the video tab, you can save yourself the hassle of trying to find a GPU in the current market (and likely overpaying for it too)
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Re: Budget encoding dedicated machine?
Thanks, it kinda works (actually it's G4400), but it's still quite slow for me, around 90fps of encoding speed.
I could get a GTX 750TI cheap, or a semi-broken gtx 1060 6G(with screen display artifacts/issues, not sure if it could do encoding).
Or is there a CPU that could get me around 250-300fps encoding speed? On my work PC I have i5 11600k but I don't wanna hammer it.
I could get a GTX 750TI cheap, or a semi-broken gtx 1060 6G(with screen display artifacts/issues, not sure if it could do encoding).
Or is there a CPU that could get me around 250-300fps encoding speed? On my work PC I have i5 11600k but I don't wanna hammer it.
Re: Budget encoding dedicated machine?
GTX 750 is a non-starter.
1060 probably won't be much faster than what you have as the CPU will be used for decode and thus, bottleneck it.
Can you post a current encode log. We might be able to get a little more performance out that existing rig by tuning the settings. (i.e. disabling unneeded filters)
1060 probably won't be much faster than what you have as the CPU will be used for decode and thus, bottleneck it.
Can you post a current encode log. We might be able to get a little more performance out that existing rig by tuning the settings. (i.e. disabling unneeded filters)