Plex · Jellyfin · Emby
Will this box handle my streams?
Reported transcode results for mini PCs, NAS boxes, CPUs, and GPUs. Simultaneous 1080p and 4K, tone mapping, power, and what someone actually paid. Every row links to the post it came from.
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Intel N100
Another Jellyfin owner, on an N100 with 16 GB single-channel RAM and a 512 GB SSD, transcoded one 60 Mbps 4K HDR10 movie to 1080p SDR at about 15 Mbps and about 78 fps. 4K HDR to 4K SDR was about 35 fps, and Dolby Vision to 4K SDR dropped to about 28 fps. 2 other reports on this page.
3 reports · Jellyfin
Intel Arc A310
A Sparkle Arc A310 owner said Plex had four simultaneous 4K transcodes going and the card was not under stress. The comment does not give bitrate, HDR, or tone mapping. 3 other reports on this page.
4 reports · Plex, Jellyfin
Intel Arc A380
A Plex stress-test post reports 24 simultaneous transcodes of 4K HDR at 35 Mbps down to 1080p at 10 Mbps on an Arc A380, with no hitching or buffering. The title does not say whether tone mapping was enabled. 2 other reports on this page.
3 reports · Plex
Synology DS423+
On Plex 1.31.2, three clients playing the same 4K file sat near 20% CPU until one stream was forced from 4K down to 1080p. That single transcode made two of the three streams buffer. Forcing 1080p down to 720p stayed in the 20–30% CPU range and was called a good result. 2 other reports on this page.
3 reports · Plex
NVIDIA GTX 1650
On Windows, a GTX 1650 (TU106) with a patched NVENC session limit handled more than ten 1080p Plex transcodes, two 4K streams with tone mapping off, and could not hold a single 4K HDR to 1080p stream with tone mapping on. 1 other report on this page.
2 reports · Plex
Synology DS923+
The same 720p-to-480p Plex transcode was easy on the DS923+ even without an iGPU. The review says the harder 720p-to-240p conversion is where it fell behind the DS423+'s Quick Sync. One file at a time. 1 other report on this page.
2 reports · Plex
AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
On a ROG Ally (Z1 Extreme, 16 GB), Jellyfin tone-mapped a 67.4 Mbps 4K HDR10 remux to 4K with subtitle burn-in at 76 fps, and a 41.5 Mbps 4K HDR Blu-ray at about 110 fps. Only those two clips were timed.
1 report · Jellyfin
Apple M1 Pro
Jellyfin on an M1 Pro (32 GB, one media encoder) tone-mapped a 67.4 Mbps 4K HDR10 remux to 4K with subtitle burn-in at 48 fps to H.264 and 70 fps to HEVC. A 41.5 Mbps 4K HDR Blu-ray was about 70 fps (H.264) and about 90 fps (HEVC).
1 report · Jellyfin