Can It Transcode

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Intel Core i3-12100

Intel Core i3-12100 · Intel UHD Graphics 730

A Jellyfin tester with an i3-12100 reported about 12 simultaneous 1080p transcodes, about 12 4K SDR to 1080p, and about 2 when the job was 4K HDR tone-mapped to 1080p SDR. Output codec in that test was H.264.

Alder Lake i3 with UHD 730, not UHD 770. A Jellyfin forum post compared 1080p, 4K SDR, and 4K HDR tone mapping on this iGPU, outputting H.264.

Reported results

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.

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A Jellyfin tester with an i3-12100 reported about 12 simultaneous 1080p transcodes, about 12 4K SDR to 1080p, and about 2 when the job was 4K HDR tone-mapped to 1080p SDR. Output codec in that test was H.264.

1080p
12
4K
12
4K HDR tone map
2
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OS not stated

Jellyfin forum — i3-12100 transcode counts
Notes from the source

Jellyfin forum thread "Questions about the hardware." The i3-12100 owner posted those three ceilings and said HDR-to-SDR tone mapping is very memory hungry on an iGPU. Another reply guessed a UHD 770 might be close to double for the non-HDR cases and probably not for tone mapping, because VRAM is the limit. That guess is not entered as its own result.