Hardware Acceleration not using my GPU

[podonnell 47]

Hi,

I saw some comments about trying out Hardware Acceleration to help with the CPU temps I've been getting on my server.
I have some pretty old hardware running my server, but it works pretty good most of the time outside of the CPU temps during a transcode. Those are also rare, but I get them a bunch when someone uses a device like a phone or tablet and it needs to downscale or downmix audio.

Is there a way I can confirm if my GPU is ever utilized?

I have a very old GPU, I think it's like an NVIDIA 560 or something, so perhaps the transcoding technology isn't available on that?
My cpu is a i7 3790k I think.

[Jdiesel 1431]

You are going to need at a minimum a 7xx series Nvidia GPU but more realistically something from the 10xx series or above the that supports modern codecs. Intel iGPUs from 8-gen CPUs and above are also a good choice.

 

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

Edited April 8, 2025 by Jdiesel