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?

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    1 year ago

    I don’t have a GPU recommendation but have you assessed that you need a discrete GPU?

    I have a small mini PC running Ubuntu server with an i7 CPU that supports hardware acceleration for transcoding to HEVC and it does really well with the handful of people using it.

    Also, if most of your media is in something H264 (or something most of your clients are compatible with), you might not even need to worry about transcoding. If that is the case, even CPU usage will be very low afaik.