Yes I know, another one, but not quite.
I’ve been looking at a lot of Mini-PC + Occulink/Thunderbolt4 NVME DAS builds that I believe are going to work well for a TrueNAS Scale minirack build. All the AMD ones kind of have the specs I want, just a nice flat out 16 core, 32 thread package with extra room for NVME drives galore, but I’d really like to avoid using the PCIE slot for a ARC GPU. I host a lot of media, so out of this build, that will be important, but I also host a few game servers.
Most if not every single thread I’ve reviewed mostly just ends with ‘go with intel quicksync just because, that is the way, supportability’. Yet those threads never really go into details, I haven’t found very recent proof on, why.
I understand quicksync is a dedicated hardware core on the die, so that’s different from utilizing a few cores on the iGPU. I understand that even Jellyfin KB’s have recommendations, yet state supportability.
I haven’t really been able to find anything on the Ryzen 9000 series feedback from users, or even the Ryzen AI 370 which is RDNA 3.5 from users, then we have Strix Halo coming out soon.
What I have found is benchmarks showing at least the AI 370 being extremely good at these things. AV1, HEVC @ 4k all seemed fine, if not better than even the Meteor-Lake equivalent.
Now I understand, well, speed is different from quality. Is it so much that the issue is Jellyfin supporting the AMD CPU’s for the quality? I.E. tone mapping? or vice versa, that AMD iGPU is not good enough or well, is it just …we don’t have much real world data to even comment yet? I feel like we have a FEW real threads out there that do have a bit of real world data but it’s like 4000g/5000g series, not even 8000g series.
Do I need to be a guinea pig? Haha
I’m just wondering if anyone out there has experience with the very new AMD CPU’s and utilizing it as an all around NAS/APP box + Media server and possibly multiple transcode sessions.