Ryzen is not recommended for transcoding because the Radeon integrated GPU’s encoding accelerator is not as fast as in intel iGPUs. But this does not come into play if you A) have 16 cores and B) don’t even have an integrated GPU.
And about idle power consumption: I don’t think it’s a point of interest if you are using a workstation class computer.
I think it’s a point of a interest for any hw running 24/7 but you do you.
Regarding transcoding, are you saying you’re not even doing it? If you are, doing it with your cpu is far more inefficient than using a gpu. But again, different strokes I guess.
Dunno whether they are transcoding or not nor why they have such a bizarre setup. But I would hope 16C/32T CPU from 2017 could handle software transcoding. Also peak power consumption while playing a movie does not really matter compared to idle power consumption. What matters more is that the motherboard is probably packed with pcie slots that consume a lot of power. But to OP it probably does not matter if they use a threadripper.
Isn’t ryzen not recommended for transcoding? Plus, I’ve read that power efficiency isn’t great. Mostly regarding idle power consumption.
Ryzen is not recommended for transcoding because the Radeon integrated GPU’s encoding accelerator is not as fast as in intel iGPUs. But this does not come into play if you A) have 16 cores and B) don’t even have an integrated GPU.
And about idle power consumption: I don’t think it’s a point of interest if you are using a workstation class computer.
I think it’s a point of a interest for any hw running 24/7 but you do you.
Regarding transcoding, are you saying you’re not even doing it? If you are, doing it with your cpu is far more inefficient than using a gpu. But again, different strokes I guess.
Dunno whether they are transcoding or not nor why they have such a bizarre setup. But I would hope 16C/32T CPU from 2017 could handle software transcoding. Also peak power consumption while playing a movie does not really matter compared to idle power consumption. What matters more is that the motherboard is probably packed with pcie slots that consume a lot of power. But to OP it probably does not matter if they use a threadripper.
I didn’t say it couldn’t handle it. Just that it was very inefficient.
I mentioned both things. Did you actually read my comments?