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?
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
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)