Hey all, I’m a complete self hosting noob. I’m gonna be getting my first homeserver soon and I’m stuck between these two options currently. They’re the same price pretty as well which makes it harder.
The G4 has a GPU (Integrated RX 560), but the G5 has better specs (i7-9700T vs i5-8500T) plus a much higher RAM capacity (The G5’s 64GB vs the G4’s 32GB.)
I’m just curious to know if the GPU would even help in my use case? I’ll mainly be using it for media (Jellyfin, Kavita, Navidrome) and a ton of tiny services that’ll only take up a few MBs of RAM. With quicksync, I’m unsure if the GPU would even be useful for transcoding, especially since you can only use one at a time. The only time I can think of it being useful is maybe for Owncast, but I wouldn’t stream a lot. It’d be super minimal, non demanding stuff for my friends. (Mainly movies and ocassional gameplay.) Even that’s up for debate with Element call for Matrix coming up soon.
I appreciate any and all answers! I’ve spent a ton of time looking into this and it’s been a pretty big headache tbh.
Don’t bother with the G4, the iGPU in the G5 will easily handle real-time transcoding for Jellyfin, and the extra RAM will be more useful if you’d want to try virtualization or other memory intensive workloads.
I can do 1080p streaming no problem on the iGPU of a core i5 4590 with no issues
Thank you for the answer! Would the 9700T be able to handle multiple streams well? A big use case for this is for me to share with my friends and family.
Yes, but often the server processes 1 stream at a time and caches it locally, so it should be easily able to handle multiple streams.
I think so, but I don’t know for sure
