337Manni 66 Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 I purchased a Dell R720 server to use as a hypervisor. One of the VM’s I plan on running will be used for Emby Server. This Dell came with an Nvidia Tesla M2070Q graphics card installed, which was a surprise. I did plan on seeing how Emby ran on the VM first and if needed I would passthrough a graphics card to take over the transcoding roll. Does anyone know how the Nvidia Tesla M2070Q would perform, or should I just sell it on and use a more suitable card if needed? Transcodes would possible max at 4 streams and I’d ideally like to start using 4k content, so assume 4x 4k transcodes. Side note, I have an MSI HD R6950 Twin Frozr III Power Edition/OC graphics card in my current HTPC that should become free once the server is all up and running. Would this AMD card be a better pick for the transcoding, or should I stick to Nvidia for now? Thanks in advance for any info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Those graphics cards are about equivalent, and pretty underpowered for what you're suggesting. You'll likely get 3 1080p simultaneous transcodes out of either of them. Not sure about 4k, but I doubt you'll get more than 2. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
337Manni 66 Posted January 20, 2020 Author Share Posted January 20, 2020 Thanks for the info mastrmind11. Looks like I'll be selling the card then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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