Intel Arc Pro A40 Support?

Hey guys,

I am looking into a new GPU for Plex transcoding inside my TrueNas Scale box. I believe since Dragonfish the Intel Arc GPU’s are supported from what I have read, but I was unsure if this also included the Arc Pro GPU’s?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,
P

The A40 should be supported by the inbox i915 driver, since 24.04.2 - 24.10 will support it as well of course. There’s another user who installed one here - while intel_gpu_top wasn’t present in 24.04 to verify, the “average CPU load” of 0% under transcode seems to imply it’s working fine.

Thanks @HoneyBadger that certainly gives me hope. Once I have the GPU I will give some feedback so that others may benefit. P.s thanks for making the “intel_gpu_top” feature request, this will be helpful in diagnosing if everything is setup correctly :slight_smile:

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Update.

So I ended up getting an Intel Arc A60. I have popped it in the system and all well so far, TrueNas scale detects it correctly and I have set it as a GPU to be used in the truenas Plex app configuration and ensured that within the app settings that the hardware transcoding is enabled and Intel is selected.

I went to the shell and entered intel_gpu_top to check that it is being used for transcode tasks but I presented with a “Command not found”

I am running Scale Dragonfish-24.04.2.2 (Not moved to Electric Eel just yet)

Any ideas?

That intel_gpu_top command is available out of box on Electric Eel once you update.

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Ahh, Understood. I had for some reason thought it was implemented earlier. Will update to EE and run some tests.