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.
A small Arc card, often a Sparkle model around $99 in these reports. One build-specific test also lives on the Minisforum MS-01 page, because that post named the whole machine.
A dash means the source did not count that kind of stream. Single-stream speeds are fps for one file, not a guess at how many clients fit.
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.
OS not stated
r/PleX — Intel Arc users (minilevy1 on the A310)Comment by minilevy1 on r/PleX, 29 Sep 2026. They also used the card to re-encode a library from H.264/H.265 to AV1. No OS or Plex version.
One Jellyfin stats reading on an Arc A310 was about 250 fps while tone-mapping an HDR10+ AV1 file at 7.6 Mbps. The commenter frames that as roughly 250/24 versus realtime. It is one file, not a client count.
OS not stated
r/unRAID — UHD 770 / A310 / A770 fps noteComment by c0lpan1c on r/unRAID, 26 Feb 2026, next to the same person's UHD 770 (~100 fps) and Arc A770 (~350 fps) readings on that file. No host OS beyond the unRAID thread context.
A Jellyfin user said an Arc A310 transcodes better than their RTX 3090, draws about 10 W at idle, and will handle multiple 4K streams. They did not publish a stream count.
OS not stated
r/jellyfin — Arc A310 comment by Levix1221Comment by Levix1221 on r/jellyfin, 13 Nov 2025. They warn that the Eco cooler is loud and that the card's firmware should be updated from Windows. "Multiple" is the whole stream claim, so this row has no numeric ceiling. They preferred the Omni card over the Eco.
Commenter said the card is 50 W and about 10 W at idle. The 50 W figure reads as the card's power rating; the idle figure is their observation. Not entered as a load measurement.
In Jellyfin on Ubuntu 24.04, one high-bitrate 4K file that this owner could not transcode on the CPU used about 60% of an Arc A310 in intel_gpu_top and played cleanly. They called multiple ordinary streams fine, without a numbered ceiling.
Ubuntu 24.04
r/selfhosted — Arc A310 initial impressionsr/selfhosted post, Intel Arc A310 initial impressions. Ubuntu 22.04 could not get a working driver stack; 24.04 did. "Multiple normal streams are no problem" is qualitative. The 60% figure is one hard 4K file, not a multi-stream result.
Bought as a $99 card. The author also described the card as under 50 W, which matches Intel's typical board power rather than a measured wall watt.
| Server | Accel | OS | 1080p | 4K | 4K HDR tone map | Power | Price | Kind | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plex | Quick Sync | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | Anecdote | r/PleX — Intel Arc users (minilevy1 on the A310)NotesComment by minilevy1 on r/PleX, 29 Sep 2026. They also used the card to re-encode a library from H.264/H.265 to AV1. No OS or Plex version. |
| Jellyfin | Quick Sync | — | — | — | — | — | — | Single-stream speed | r/unRAID — UHD 770 / A310 / A770 fps noteNotesComment by c0lpan1c on r/unRAID, 26 Feb 2026, next to the same person's UHD 770 (~100 fps) and Arc A770 (~350 fps) readings on that file. No host OS beyond the unRAID thread context. |
| Jellyfin | Quick Sync | — | — | — | — | — | — | Anecdote | r/jellyfin — Arc A310 comment by Levix1221NotesComment by Levix1221 on r/jellyfin, 13 Nov 2025. They warn that the Eco cooler is loud and that the card's firmware should be updated from Windows. "Multiple" is the whole stream claim, so this row has no numeric ceiling. They preferred the Omni card over the Eco. |
| Jellyfin | Quick Sync | Ubuntu 24.04 | — | — | — | — | $99 | Single-stream speed | r/selfhosted — Arc A310 initial impressionsNotesr/selfhosted post, Intel Arc A310 initial impressions. Ubuntu 22.04 could not get a working driver stack; 24.04 did. "Multiple normal streams are no problem" is qualitative. The 60% figure is one hard 4K file, not a multi-stream result. |