Hi, I am looking to make my first dedicated jellyfin server rather than running it on my desktop, but don’t know what gpu to get. I will have only a few users and want to avoid Nvidia because I will be on linux + foss drivers. Any recommendations?
GPU choice, honestly, is easy as hell right now.
If you have (or will soon have) kernel 6.2 or higher, get an Intel Arc A380.
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150€
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great h.264 & h.265 performance, VMAF scored above 3090 in most cases, especially at lower bitrates. Tests were done at release and drivers have only improved
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literally the cheapest AV1 encoder GPU available
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open source drivers
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less that 100W full load
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small form factor
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You can check mini PCs based on Intel alder lake N100. Intel N100 is perfect because it have a low 6 watts TDP, 4 cores / 4 threads (all low energy cores) and Intel UHD GPU (24 CU) with H264/H265 hardware video encode and decode and AV1 hardware decode only (so no av1 encoding). There is a lot of thiny models some with M2 ports and SATA. Some models are also fanless so no noise :) Price is from ~150$ (barebone) to 300$ with 16Go RAM and 1To SSD M2. I saw good prices on aliexpress for them.
That depends on how you intend on importing your Jellyfin media–if you are able to transcode it to a format that Jellyfin can display natively, then you can even run multiple streams on a Raspberry Pi 4 with no issues (as long as your bandwidth can handle it) I am running Jellyfin in Docker on an old HP laptop with an AMD A10-9600P from 2016. Even with no GPU set up, the processor is able to transcode two simultaneous 1080P streams, although I’m intending on transcoding everything into a codec with native support soon
I run my instance on an old i5, it’s able to transcode things at 1080p, when needed. Unless you REALLY need some serious performance, or want to use a very low power CPU for some reason, a GPU really isn’t necessary.
The computer I am running it on has a dual core Athlon 64x2 and no integrated graphics, so I do need a GPU. I ended up going with a 1050ti because I intend to allow some friends on it meaning 4-5 concurrent streams is a possibility and I found one for really cheap on Ebay because the fan was broken. Thank you for the recommendation though, I should have provided more information when I posted this.
I actually love my Nvidia GPU on my 9th gen I7 GTX 1660 super system. It runs Ubuntu without any issues
