I’m taking down my big Supermicro server to save energy and moving Plex/Jellyfin/*arr to a spare 10th gen Intel NUC with SSDs. Performance is fine for DirectPlay media to my SHIELD and mobile devices, but the onboard GPU power is limited and struggles to even transcode some 1080p media – let alone 4K. Does anyone have experience using eGPUs in a Thunderbolt chassis with a NUC and can you share what worked or didn’t work for you in terms of hardware and configuration?
Edit: this is an i7-10710U with NVMe storage and 32GB of RAM, running Windows 10 with all the latest drivers directly from Intel.
Edit 2.0: (a year later, which nobody will ever read) I switched to Linux and all my issues disappeared. Really.
Does the n95 handle 4k to 4k Plex transcodes well? Or are you talking about 4k to 1080p?
It’s fine, it can do a few at once. I didn’t do a lot of testing since I never have to transcode these days anyway.
Okay then there’s no reason why a hyperthreaded hexacore i7-10710U should struggle unless, like you said, there’s a misconfiguration. That makes me feel better because I’m hemorrhaging cash at the moment.