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Minisforum MS-01 + Sparkle Arc A310

Intel Core i9-13900H · Sparkle Intel Arc A310

Plex on a Minisforum MS-01 with a Sparkle Arc A310, tone mapping set to Hable, held five 4K HEVC streams at once: three at 40 Mbps and two browser streams around 58 Mbps, while the server was still importing the library.

A Minisforum MS-01 (i9-13900H, 32 GB, Ubuntu, Docker) with a Sparkle A310 passed through to Plex. The streams below were assigned to the Arc card, not the CPU's iGPU.

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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.

PlexQuick SyncStream count

1080p: —
4K: —
4K HDR tone map: 5
Power: —
Price paid: $99

Ubuntu 24.04, Docker

r/PleX — Sparkle A310 in a Minisforum MS-01

Notes from the source

Post by Inquisitive_idiot, 1 Mar 2025. Host: MS-01, i9-13900H, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 10 GbE, Ubuntu, Docker with GPU passthrough, non-root. Plex had 4K HEVC enabled, tone mapping on, algorithm Hable, GPU set to the Arc A310. Adding the card initially knocked out the SFP+ NICs until a reinstall. The $99 figure is the card.

The Sparkle A310 was described as $99. The post does not price the MS-01 itself.

Server	Accel	OS	1080p	4K	4K HDR tone map	Power	Price	Kind	Source
Plex	Quick Sync	Ubuntu 24.04, Docker	—	—	5	—	$99	Stream count	r/PleX — Sparkle A310 in a Minisforum MS-01 Notes Post by Inquisitive_idiot, 1 Mar 2025. Host: MS-01, i9-13900H, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 10 GbE, Ubuntu, Docker with GPU passthrough, non-root. Plex had 4K HEVC enabled, tone mapping on, algorithm Hable, GPU set to the Arc A310. Adding the card initially knocked out the SFP+ NICs until a reinstall. The $99 figure is the card.