Which hardware should I choose for Plex (hardware transcoding with iGPU)? - eviltoast
  • Intel Processor N100 (Intel UHD Graphics 24 EU) + 32 GB RAM (single channel) 3200MHz 16-18-18-38
  • Intel Pentium Silver N6005 (Intel UHD Graphics 32 EU) + 64 GB RAM (dual channel) 2933MHz 19-19-19-47

Planned use:

  • transcode 4K HDR x264 content with a maximum bitrate of 77.5 Mb/s, handling up to 4 transcodes simultaneously (file size: 85GB for each one)
  • RAM as a temporary transcoding folder