I have a SuperMicro X11SSM-F with an E3-1230 v6 @ 3.50GHz and no GPU
Everything works fine except transcoding where I need more power. I don’t have space to add a GPU, so looking for CPU with iGPU that is supported on Truenas Scale 24 and can pass through to Plex (I have Plex Pass). The Intel® 7th/6th Generation Core i3 series, weren’t supported on Freenas (for passthrough) but as Scale runs on Linux I was wondering if that has changed. Any advice highly appreciated.
For what I have understand reading some old thread (so i can be totally wrong), if one only GPU Is on the system, you can’t isolate and passthrough It because TN Need It.
Btw, pass from a 1230v6 to an i3 can impact you badly (depending on what you do with the Nas).
IMHO a 1225v6 (4c 4t for around 30€), or a 1245v6 (4c 8t for around 60~70€) provides you an integrated GPU without losing too much power… But still not enough to achieve your goal (if another GPU Need).
Hope someone else can confirm or correct me Im totally interested on that too
This is true for PCI-Passthrough to a VM, but not when using apps.
Also, when using a server motherboard, truenas is happy with a ASPEED VGA controller, so at least theoretically you could even passthrough the iGPU to a VM.
As far as I know the real issue with iGPU transcoding is that you need a C2x6 chipset, not a C2x2, so your motherboard should be good for either CORE or SCALE. Go find an i3 or E3v6 with an iGPU.
Thx, I bit more context is that I run Plex in VM currently with Docker-compose setup plus a number of other containers. Will move to 24.10 once public is released and recreate the environment as apps. Will look for an i2 or E3v6 with an iGPU.