Nvidia M2000 or Intel Quicksync (E3-1245v5 P530)

[Teredactle 37]

Hi gang,

I picked up recently a Precision 3620 that came with the Nvidia Quadro M2000 card. Although it has a CPU with no graphics I swapped it out for the E3-1245v5 which has graphics built in), My plan is to move Emby to this box - as currently it's running in a Win10 Hyper-V VM on a E3-1225v3, however since it runs in a VM I can't pass the GPU load to it, so the CPU gets tapped out when transcoding is required.

My question is whether or not the M2000 is worth keeping, versus using the Quicksync features of the E3-1245v5 using the P530. This is what I'm finding.

https://bluesky-soft.com/en/dxvac/deviceInfo/decoder/intel.html

 

https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new

BOARD	FAMILY	NDEC Generation	Desktop/ Mobile	# OF CHIPS	Total # of NVDEC	MPEG-1	MPEG-2	VC-1	VP8	VP9			H.264 (AVCHD)	H.265 (HEVC) 4:2:0			*H.265 (HEVC) 4:4:4			AV1
										8 bit	10 bit	12 bit		8 bit	10 bit	12 bit	8 bit	10 bit	12 bit	8 bit	10 bit
Quadro M1000 / M1200 / M2000	Maxwell (1st Gen)	1st Gen	M	1	1	YES	YES	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO
Quadro M2000	Maxwell (GM206)	2nd Gen	D	1	1	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	NO	NO	YES	YES	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO

 

They look pretty much on par, however some preliminary tests (using Jellyfin server - Emby needs permier key and although I have it, I'm not sure about another installation using it even to test, and I don't want to screw up my current installation), when I use the Nvidia card some of the media will not play back, where as if I choose the Intel quicksync, it will play back.

Any thoughts on which would be better to use?

Alternately, is anyone here passing the GPU to a VM, if so what is your hypervisor? Apparently this isn't possible on Win10, I've quickly tried Vmware Workstation, but it's not working "well"....

Thanks and cheers!

 

 

 

[GrimReaper 4748]

5 minutes ago, Teredactle said:

Emby needs permier key and although I have it, I'm not sure about another installation using it even to test, and I don't want to screw up my current installation

You can use same Premiere key in as many installations as you want and it will not impact any other, as they're all self-contained instances; only thing to note is that number of devices using Premiere features is cumulative (server1 devices + server2 devices + server3 devices etc.) so you might potentially hit device limit if you spread too much. 

Edited August 10, 2023 by GrimReaper

[Teredactle 37]

Excellent, will give it a go, thanks for this info!

[Q-Droid 989]

You're better off testing to make sure because some sources say HD P530 can decode HEVC 10-bit but some say it can't.  One way to know for sure...

 

[Teredactle 37]

Using test files I found here: Jellyfish Bitrate Test Files (larmoire.info)

It's struggling with the last file the HEVC 10Bit 4K, but I'm also encoding with HBBatchbeast so the actual CPU is at 100%.

Will test once the CPU has freed up, but the P530 get hit at around 30% once I start playing the test file in a browser.

 

-What I'm seeing though, is that if I remove all the Quicksync entries and force it to use the M2000, BOTH GPUs get used, as well as the CPU. This is very strange..

 

-If I move the M2000 to the end of the lists (both for 264 and 265) and play the same file, the CPU is less used, and only the P530 gets used, 0% of the M2000.

Edited August 10, 2023 by Teredactle