GForce 1060 or Intel A310 for Transcoding

[gwbaker 4]

So my emby premier server has a Gforce 1060 for the hardware transcoding option.  I have not hacked the driver so I am restricted to two transcodes at a time due to NVidia's limit restriction.

Is the A310 as good or faster at transcoding than the 1060?  Thinking of switching if fast enough and to get past the two transcode limit without a driver hack...  

Searched extensively and cannot find applicable results to help me figure this out.

THANKS!!!

[RanmaCanada 494]

These things are hard to find as barely anyone does the testing. The 1060 might be a bit faster, but again you need the driver hack. The A310 will produce better quality encodes, and doesn't need a power adapter to do so. You might also want to look at the A380 as it is also available in a bus powered version, and has more VRAM than the A310, and is roughly the same price as the A310.

[gwbaker 4]

7 hours ago, RanmaCanada said:

These things are hard to find as barely anyone does the testing. The 1060 might be a bit faster, but again you need the driver hack. The A310 will produce better quality encodes, and doesn't need a power adapter to do so. You might also want to look at the A380 as it is also available in a bus powered version, and has more VRAM than the A310, and is roughly the same price as the A310.

Thanks for the response!  Odd that the 1060 would be faster but the Arc cards provide better encoding.  Since I am shooting for better more efficient encoding, I think I will go with the A380.  Only $10 more than the 310 so seems like the better choice.  Thanks!

 

[tedfroop21 86]

16 minutes ago, gwbaker said:

Odd that the 1060 would be faster but the Arc cards provide better encoding. 

Wellll....not really.  The laptop I am writing this on has both a 13th gen i9 with integrated UHD gpu and a GTX4090 mobile.

It's pretty much an even pick for encodeing speeds between the two.....so  no doubt in my mind the newer ARC would be quicker.

Plus when OS compatibility is factored in,  Nvidia works in Windows and is a giant PITA in linux,  and Intel Quicksync, just works.....

[RanmaCanada 494]

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvdec-cuda-nvenc-speed-comparison/47236/3